Ep 20 - Life Audit with Taylor Utley

You’re standing in the sacred In-Between—not quite the old year, not fully the new… but right in the doorway where real transformation happens.

In this episode of The Charmed Life Project, Gina opens with a reflective energy update inviting you to slow down, release outdated versions of yourself, and listen for subtle guidance instead of forcing resolutions. This is a week for honoring what you’ve survived, noticing signs, and choosing alignment over pressure. Your mantra: “I honor my temple in every cell in my body. I honor that I’m unique and beautiful in every way.”

Then we dive into one of the most powerful practices you can do before setting goals for the new year: a Life Audit. Not a harsh self-critique—but an honest, compassionate look at where you are and where you’re going, so your goals are rooted in intention, not habit.

We walk you through eight core areas of a fulfilled life:
Self & Spirit, Relationships, Purpose & Work, Money & Receiving, Body & Health, Home & Environment, Time & Energy, and Joy, Play & Creativity. You’ll learn how to define your ideal, assess your current reality without judgment, and choose 2–3 areas to consciously prioritize—starting now, not January 1st.

Kim shares personal insights from her own audit, and we explore the science behind writing goals down and how clarity helps your brain spot aligned opportunities.

For the first time ever, we welcome a special guest: Taylor Utley, trauma-informed coach, educator, and creator of Mind Magic with Taylor—a transformational platform blending neuroscience, somatic healing, and spiritual psychology. After years of studying trauma, attachment, and the mind–body connection, Taylor helps women rewire their nervous systems, break unconscious patterns, and step into empowered, regulated lives. Through her programs and viral educational content, she guides deep healing rooted in science, intuition, and soul.

This episode is part meditation, part roadmap, and part loving wake-up call—and it ends with an exciting announcement:

✨ Divine Feminine Half-Day Retreat with Gina & Taylor
📍 Collective Wellness (Louisville, KY) + Zoom
🗓 January 17, 2026 | 11:30–4:30

🎧 Press play, grab a notebook, and let’s audit your life with love.

Link to sign up for Divine Retreat:

https://www.ginajulianscarpino.com/service-page/divine-feminine-half-day-retreat-1?referral=service_list_widget

Links:
Instagram / TikTok / YouTube: @moonmagicwithtaylor
1:1 Coaching: https://shorturl.at/G7rVx
Course: https://mindmagicwithtaylor.com/

Transcript

Gina 1:38

Hi guys. Gina Garino, psychic medium and spiritual life coach. Back again for the energy update. This is gonna feel like the sacred InBetween space, not quite the old year, not fully the new, but standing in a powerful spiritual doorway. You may feel quieter, more reflective, even a little tender as certain versions of you. Old patterns and expired roles fall away this week to honor what we've survived and know who you've become. Instead of rushing into resolutions or trying to fix yourself, pay attention to subtle nudges, random ideas, repeating signs, or people who suddenly come to mind. Your guides are whispering your next steps. Let yourself rest more, move slower and say no to anything that feels forced. Simple rituals will land deeply. Now, cleanse your space. Write a release list or speaking out loud what you're ready to call in. The more honest you are with yourself this week, the clearer and the more aligned your path becomes as you cross into the new year. So here's your mantra. I honor my temple in every cell in my body. I honor that I'm unique and beautiful in every way.

Kim 3:00

All right. Welcome back to the Charmed Life Project. Today we're diving into something that is going to set the tone for your entire new Year. And honestly, it's one of the most powerful practices you can do Before even thinking about setting goals, choosing a word of the year, or writing out your resolutions. We're talking about a life audit, a full spectrum, honest, compassionate, look at the core areas of your life so you can understand where you are, where you're going, and who you are becoming. Most people skip this part. They jump right into the new year, new me energy, without ever checking in on the current me. They set goals from a place of pressure, comparison or habit, not alignment. And that's why so many resolutions dissolve by February, but not this year. This is the year you get clear, you get intentional, and you get aligned because your goals should not be random. They should be rooted in the reality you want to create. So here's what we're doing today. A notebook and a sheet of paper if you can. We're going to walk through the eight core categories of a fulfilled life. Those eight categories are, number one, self and spirit, two, relationships, three, purpose and work. Four, money and receiving five, body and health. Six, home and environment seven, time and energy, and eight, joy, play and creativity. And for each category we want you to ask, if I were truly fulfilled in this area, what would that look like? What would it feel like? How would you move through your day? What would the ideal version of this part of your life be? Write it out. Describe your ideal without limitations. Let it be bigger than what feels realistic, because something powerful happens when you write things down. And I'm not just talking about manifestation, I'm talking about actual documented psychology. There's a study from the Dominican University led by psychologists, Dr. Gale Matthews, that found people who write their goals down, or 42% more likely to achieve them than people who don't. 42%. There's a reason writing is so powerful. On a neuroscientific level, putting your goals on paper activates the reticular activating system. The filter in your brain that decides what gets your attention. Once you write something down, your brain starts scanning the world for anything aligned with it. Opportunities, conversations, ideas, resources, the things you used to overlook, suddenly stand out. Writing your goals down is basically telling your brain, highlight this, this matters. Look for this now, and there's more. Psychologists call this the generation effect, which means we remember and act on information more effectively when we write it in our own words. It's like your handwriting creates an emotional imprint and your mind it becomes yours. Your identity starts catching up to your intention. But most people don't write down their goals. They store them in their heads right next to random song lyrics, intrusive thoughts, and the memory of something embarrassing they did in the eighth grade. No wonder we're not achieving them. They can't breathe in there, much less shine through. So today, we're not keeping our dreams locked inside our heads. We're bringing them into form. After you've journaled your ideal version of each category, we want you to look at your life right now without judgment, without shame, and rank each category from one to eight, with one being the furthest from your ideal, and eight being the closest to your ideal. This will help you see exactly where your energy, time, and focus needs to go. Then choose two to three categories that you want to prioritize in the new year. These can be your lowest ranked areas or almost their areas, or maybe there's themes across multiple categories. Pick the ones that genuinely resonate with you, the ones that are calling to you. And from there, create a simple actionable plan. Ask yourself, what can I start today, not January 1st, to move closer to my ideal life? Because here's the secret, your new year doesn't start because the calendar flips. Your new year starts when you flip, when you choose differently, show up differently. Think differently, and act differently. And if the universe is trying to help you, which it always is, then writing your goals down is you finally giving it specific instructions. So today, let's audit. Let's get honest, get clear, and build a roadmap that actually moves the needle in your life. Gina and I both decided that before we asked you to do this audit, we needed to sit down and do it ourselves. And we're going to share some of those insights with you today to hopefully give you some ideas and a little more clarity on your own life. But before we dive into all of that, we have some very exciting news. We are doing something we have never done on the podcast before. For the first time ever, we have a special guest joining us on the Charmed Life Project. Someone I know Gina Adores and that I am so excited to meet and I know her perspective is going to add so much depth to this conversation. Gina, do you wanna introduce her?

Gina 8:20

I sure do. I am so excited to have this special guest on the show and give us her expert advice on the life audit.'cause this is one of the things that she does with her clients. So we are having Taylor Uley on the show. She is a trauma informed coach, educator, and the creator of Moon Magic. With Taylor, a transformational platform blending neuroscience, thematic healing, spiritual psychology. And after years of her studying trauma attachment and the mind body connection, Taylor helps women rewire their nervous systems and break unconscious patterns and step into their most empowered regulated selves. So let's welcome Taylor. Taylor, we're so glad that you're here.

Taylor 9:10

Hey ladies, thank you so much for having me. That was the beautiful welcome. I'm, you guys can't see it, but I'm blushing.

Gina 9:18

I am so excited to pick your mind on how you would handle these situations with our life audit.

Taylor 9:28

Yeah. I'm excited. I was looking over the questions. It's such a great conversation to have around this time of year, especially because so many people have this, there's like this, conditioned idea around the new year, right? Even though mm-hmm. Even we know it's not the real new year, but there's this idea of like, okay, fresh start. What kind of goals do I have at this change, at this shift.

Gina 9:53

Yeah, absolutely. And as we go through each one, Kim and I are gonna be super honest with how we rated ourselves, what we thought about it, and I'm super pumped to get your advice and your guidance on all of this. So let's dig in, shall we? So first and foremost, for our listeners, we have to set the energy. I want you to take three deep breaths, one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly. And as you're taking these deep breaths, I want you to silently say, I'm safe to be honest with myself. Then I want you to imagine a loving, non-judgmental light all around you. And I want you to ask your guides, your angels, your ancestors source to give you guidance clearly. So let's start in with the eight areas of the whole life audit. Okay? We're gonna write ourselves one to eight, and the first one is Self in spirit. Kim, what'd you get on this? I bring to this one A three,

Kim 11:01

which is super low, which, yeah, I'm shocked. it's crazy because these are the things that I talk about. It's something that you always have to go back to. You have to be evaluating it constantly because before you know it, it can kind of slip up on you. And that's what I think has happened to me. In this past year, I've just been so busy and I noticed that theme across many of these categories where I feel like I have just been so busy and I'm just trying to keep my head above water. And of course that means I'm being reactive I'm not being proactive. I'm not prioritizing the things that, bring me happiness, that bring me joy, that make me feel good. I've realized I'm not practicing yoga anymore. I'm not meditating anymore. Why aren't I doing those things? Well, because I feel like I'm always behind. So I'm, starting my day feeling like I'm behind. And it just seems like I don't have time to practice those self-care items. This is a limiting belief and it's a common one for me. I, throughout my life, I have this same, you know, I'm always busy, there's never enough time. And so, I'm just trying to get real with myself about that, that, you know, I'm creating this reality for myself. And I just, again, need to grab a hold of it. There's been many times in the past where I have, and then it slips up on me again. It's kind of this reoccurring theme for me.

Gina 12:27

So, just

Taylor 12:28

thinking about that question, this is one of the most non-sexy, advice areas to give clients. They hate that answer. I can just feel their agitation with me, but I'm like, well, have you, why are you meditating? Are you connecting with spirit? Are you, you know, slowing down? They're like, oh my gosh, because I think. Everything in our culture, especially in the West, that's so counterintuitive to everything we're conditioned to believe and whenever we started our, our spiritual practice, most of us spent years being conditioned to think that productivity work hard or do more, is the answer. Yeah. And so, I mean, even to sit and ruminate about the million things you have to do feels productive. Right. It feels like you're doing something. It gives you this false sense of control so it can feel like we're sort of relinquishing that when we just sit still and try to like clear our mind and, and let things come to us. I think the concept of asking yourself something and waiting and getting still to get that answer, I think that that feels. Like you're relinquishing your control'cause it's like, well, what do you mean? What is, when am I gonna get an answer? When is that? Doesn't even make any sense. So I think that's one of the hardest things if, clients that I work with, if they don't already have a practice that they've been incorporating for years, it's really hard to get them to see the value in that until you do it right, until you sit still and you get a download or like everything suddenly makes sense. I, went to a breathwork class. It was actually the first breathwork class I'd ever been to with these women, several years ago. And one thing I noticed was that at the end of the breathwork class when the facilitator was like, what came up for you? Several of the women were like, oh,, I've had this thing on my mind that I couldn't figure out, or I've had this problem and, suddenly it just made sense. And I thought to myself. Busy women who are moms, they're entrepreneurs, they have busy careers, they're wives, they don't have time to even stop and think. So things that seem like these big, problems to them that they're ruminating on. It's like they took an hour to themselves to sit still and get quiet, and it was like, oh, they had all this clarity and everything made sense.

Kim 14:45

Yeah, when you're getting your to-do list done, there's that immediate reward of marking that thing off, even though it's like probably just the most inconsequential thing. When you meditate, you don't get that immediate reward. Of course, you feel better all day long, but it's not that immediate like, oh, I got something taken care of. And I think that that's part of it. And yeah, the for sure, like that was one of the big things for me as I was going through this. I don't have space in my day to sit and brainstorm and think or journal and I used to create that for myself, so why not? Why all of a sudden, you know?

Taylor 15:21

Whenever I am neglecting that with, like, when I get busy and I neglect to sit and meditate, I always keep pulling the hermit card in tarot. It's so every time right? You want an answer, you're asking me for the answer, here is the answer. The answer is always go within. It's just like you said, that dopamine hit that you get even from just sitting and telling yourself, oh, I can do this, I can do this, I can do this. It's just, it's not easy cheap dopamine to go and just get still and quiet and sit with yourself.

Gina 15:52

So y'all know I'm spiritual zeff. Right, like this is, this is my jam. I meditate all the time. I pray all the time, all of the things. I got a seven. And to me it's like instead of working on the areas of my life that are lower in the twos and threes, I'm gonna work on the areas that are the higher numbers first to get them to an eight.'cause they're closest. And focus my energy there.'cause I feel like all the other ones will naturally go up also. So I ask myself questions for the self and spirit. Do I feel connected to myself and my intuition? I answered that, yes. Hardcore. I'm very connected into myself, very like my body, mind, and spirit guide me every moment. And then I ask, do I make space for stillness, prayer, meditation, or whatever connects me to source. Yes, a hundred percent, but not as much as I would like. And I did a body check. Do I feel nourished or depleted by the way I spend my alone time? And that was, I love my alone time. I feel super, super nourished in it. But there's just like some little tweaks of, even though I'm doing all of this and it makes me feel good, I wanna feel even better. Like I wanna feel at that eight or above that eight.'cause I still feel like there's more to discover there, you know? So I'm excited to change some things around and see if I can bump that up to an eight.

Taylor 17:36

So in working with clients, I have a lot of the clients that come to me are, wanting help with their attachment wounds that are showing up in their relationships and dating. And they'll tell me things that come up for them and they're like, should I not be with this person? I was thinking this, I was thinking that. And I'm like, I don't know. Because those thoughts sound very fear-based. And intuition is not fear-based. So I don't know what your intuition is telling you. And you don't know what your intuition is telling you because you're stuck in rumination and fear. Mm-hmm. And until you're able to like regulate yourself and you can't even hear your intuition, all you can hear is the fear and the anxiety because it intuition isn't just a very calm and just subtle knowing. It doesn't have this like, sense of urgency and rush to.

Gina 18:25

Right, and that's a great segue of going into relationships next. And with relationships, you can ask yourself questions like, who feels safe, supported, reciprocal? Who feels heavy and performative? Where am I overgiving or abandoning myself to keep the peace? Notice one relationship that wants more truth, more boundaries, or more appreciation. Now, Kim Taylor, this one I scored a little bit lower. Mm-hmm. How'd you score Kim?

Kim 19:03

I actually gave this one, this was my eight, so this was my best one. Oh, we swapped, which made me really happy because it's not until you sit down and like list all this stuff out and start thinking about it that you like really realize, you know, that these truths come to you. But, I, what I did was I. Broke it up., There's obviously many relationships in your life, so marriage, kids, parents, other family members, friendships, and on each of those I was very, very happy with how they were going. And you, I can't always say that, right? Anybody that's been married for a long time, you know, you go through ebbs and flows, ups and downs. Things are really great right now. Um, and, you know, everything with the kids, there are a lot to handle. Sure. But they are happy, they're healthy, they bring so much joy. Um, my parents, I get to see them every week. They come and watch the kids one day a week. And they do so much for us. They're just incredible. And Kyle's mom too, Janice, she's amazing. We just have the best relationship with both of our parents and other family members. Friendships are great. My, my two best friends, they live kind of far away. Um, not crazy far, but enough that,, it's not like a one day visit. And so there I'm always like, oh, I wish I could see them more. I wish I could talk to them more, if anything. I think on that front, we can talk for six months, we would never do that, but we could not talk for six months and pick it up like, we haven't missed anything. But, you know, we went through spells where like we were working out every week, on Zoom together and, you know, there's just things we were going on, shopping trips, before the, next season hit. And some of those things have fallen by the wayside again, just with things getting so busy. So that's definitely something I wanna prioritize more. Seeing them, we've always talked about doing quarterly trips together, but making sure that I'm reaching out on a regular basis to talk to them a little bit more. But yeah, this was, this was my highest ranked category.

Gina 20:53

Well, heck yeah, girl. I love that. Yeah. Okay, so you might think I am a little batty for what I'm about to say. So everything in my earthly dimension life, relationship wise is really, really good. But where I notice my relationships are lacking is I used to create time and space to talk to my loved ones in heaven and really connect in with them and talk with them and commune with them. I mean, I am a medium, right? Mm-hmm. I can do this, and I have found myself doing it for other people since it is my career and I've lacked on the connection on my side with. With my loved ones in spirit. Now, don't get me wrong, I talk to my angels. I talk to my guides all the time, but I have not talked to my nana and my nnu in like months and months, and I know that that sounds a little wild, but it's something that I need for that self in spirit aspect, that connection to really make me feel like I'm guided and supported in that way. Okay. And also in a more earthly tone, I realized that there are relationships that I want to be closer, but I don't know if they can or will because of the other person. And so I decided in this area that, and Taylor, you can tell me if this is a good idea from your coaching aspect. I decided that I'm gonna put myself out there. So I've had really strict boundaries of these relationships and now I'm ready to like dip my toe in and see if there's something more. That can be created because I hate surface level relationships. Like, oh my God, kill me now. I need depth, I need like that deep ocean depth of a relationship. You know, I wanna get in there. And, there's a couple of my family members where I'm like, tiptoeing and I really, really want that deeper relationship. So I thought about just, tiptoeing out, but maybe Taylor can give me some sound advice on what would be a good way to uphold my boundaries, but still help me tiptoe over to see if I could create more of a nourishing relationship.

Taylor 23:34

Oh wow. So much there. Just while you all were talking, I was thinking about, explaining to people, the concept of relationships truly are a mirror. And, if you don't make it about the other person, if you just use it as information about yourself, they can be a really powerful catalyst for your evolution. I know for myself, I struggle sometimes, which is, this is gonna sound ironic because I'm coach women. But I struggle in groups of women when I pick up on certain types of energy. So a lot of the clients that I coach and everyone on this call, and probably a lot of people listening, are highly sensitive women. Highly sensitive women pick up on energy. They pick up on subtle micro cues. They pick up on everything that's going on in an interaction. It's old trauma that tells you it's about you. So I think that sensitivity, and Gina, you and I have talked about this, on a podcast we did together is a gift. It's a superpower, but you have the ability to just look at the energy if it's off in the connection and just. If it's that person's stuff and it's not yours, just leave it with them. You don't have to. It's trauma that starts whispering to you that oh, you need to fix this, or, oh, they don't like you or you did something wrong. Mm. And so, I have old like mean girl stuff, I have, stuff with my mom that I've done a lot of healing from. So sometimes in certain groups of women, when I feel this kind of like mean girl energy mm-hmm. I shut down. Or even sometimes maybe like you were saying, feel myself come up with this like performative kind of energy, which is so not me. And I'm like, where is this coming from? Um, and I think it's just rooted in these old stories because why is there mean girl energy? Well, the reality is that, that's their own insecurities. That's their own like ego overcompensation

Speaker 4 25:29

So

Taylor 25:30

instead of letting myself like shrink or shut down or. Be performative in those situations. If I were really grounded in myself and not letting other people's energy impact me or making it about me, I could just continue to be myself. And really in doing that, you're often giving those other people permission to be themselves and to let their walls down a little bit more and oftentimes, like totally shifting the energy, you have so much power than you realize. I mean, just like what you were saying, when you feel like there's this energetic imbalance between you and another person your own boundary, you just setting a boundary can completely shift the energy in that dynamic. Now in some situations, you do have to shut people outta your life, and that's for you to, you know, use discernment. But if you've never set a boundary with a person, how do you know that that relationship isn't salvageable if you've never done your part to shift the energy? So I think we have so much more. Power in our romantic relationships and our platonic relationships and our work relationships, than we realize.

Gina 26:33

Yeah, really looking at the energy behind it. Because like with my situation, I want deeper relationships with my brother and sister and. It was something that happened over COVID. Our mom had a stroke, it was really hard on the three of us and we're just now getting to a place where we're trying to like rebuild and get closer And it's been a really beautiful process and that next step for me is to, you know, pick up the phone and call or, have one-on-one time'cause in families you're usually together as a group and I'm a one-on-one kind of gal and so that gives me a lot of food for thought on how to take these relationships a little bit deeper.

Taylor 27:22

Where do you think the resistance comes from? When you feel a resistance of like reaching out to them, what do you think that's rooted in?

Gina 27:30

Um, I think that it's rooted in me having to hold the energy. To be honest, you know, it's like, okay, how is this gonna be received? But not even that. I think it's just me having to hold the energy.

Taylor 27:47

So by hold the energy, do you mean you feel like you're doing a lot of the emotional labor, like you're doing the labor within the interaction?

Gina 27:56

I think it's, yeah, not holding the labor of it, but it's more so of me interpreting the energy of what's coming towards me. That's the scary part. But even with that, I know that all of that doesn't exist. And that kind of goes into my work I read energy and I feel energy so intensely, and guess what? My siblings are exactly like me and they feel it intensely, also. And that brings us into purpose and work. This is a big one and some of the questions that we came up with was, does my work feel aligned with who I am? Am I using my gifts or just using my energy? Is this a stepping stone or a prison?

Kim 28:50

That's a powerful question. Is this a stepping stone or a prison? Um. Yeah, so I think I, I ranked this a six. So it's pretty high up there. It's not quite there yet. But I've accomplished many goals as of recently. I obviously published efforts for Your Soul. We've started this podcast. There's a lot still I wanna do, uh, for the book I've already published. I wanna get in more bookstores, wanna do the audiobook and the ebook version. And you know, obviously my ultimate life goal is always to be a New York Times bestselling author. So once that happens, I'll rank this in eight. But I did realize, again, this went back to that being busy, idea that I have all the time. That I do wanna start writing another book. That's my passion. And I really think that's kind of what's missing from my life right now is, I used to start my day every day with writing, and that's really what brought me into alignment and then it was like, I flowed throughout the rest of my day. I was totally filled up, and once I published the book in January, it was then, all of this stuff. That's not a whole lot of fun for me to do, to try to market it and to try to get it out there. That stuff is not what fills me up, even though it feels like it's stuff that I need to do. So your last question there really resonated with me because Yeah. You know, I, I don't wanna be emailing bookstores all day long. Um mm-hmm. I don't wanna be formatting an ebook, like, none of that is fun for me. So while it's definitely taking me, steps toward my goal, and that's important. It's not aligning like I used to have. So, that's one thing that I really realized was that I, I wanna start my next book.

Gina 30:35

Um, I just got all over body chills and I'm so calm. We've all been wondering when Kim is gonna start her next book.'Cause I know how passionate you are about writing and that brings so much joy and love and gratitude to my heart for you and for everybody that's gonna read this next book. I just, I know Okay. Prediction time. I know the second book is going to have an even bigger impact than the first, and it's gonna be absolutely amazing. I cannot wait. Aw, thank you. Yes. I cannot wait. Um, when I did this, I scored pretty high. Of purpose and work. My occupation and vocation are one and the same, and I live a life of service and it's very near and dear to my heart. And whenever we decided we were gonna do the life audit, it was almost like the universe was prepping me months prior to this podcast because the universe kind of really slowed me down to appreciate the work that I was doing and working in quality versus quantity. And it got me back to my why. And something that really helped me in work and purpose was getting back to my why. Why am I doing this? Is it, and it can be super simple. It can be like, this is my job that pays for my bills and my family. That can be a legit. Honest, amazing reason. And that can be good enough for you. And that can feel really good in your heart, you know? And if you look at your job or your career or your purpose in life. If you feel like you haven't found your purpose, I hear this all the time in my work and I'm sure Taylor does too, of what's my purpose? Your purpose is gonna be very different than your occupation most of the time. Purpose can be separate from your work. And I know that one of my purposes in this world is connecting with my parents emotionally to let them know that they're loved and supported from a daughter's point of view and healing their heart and soul from that aspect and just loving them for who they are. And so I really like the purpose and the work one, but if you are feeling like your work is a prison, you have your own personal responsibility to break out of the prison, and guess what? You gotta shovel. Like you got all of the supplies you need to break outta your own prison. You just have to do it. And sometimes a prison can also be your money game. Taylor, what do you think about, money and receiving? Just when I like throw that out there as a life audit,

Taylor 33:36

yeah, so I talk to clients about this a lot. I think that money and love kind of operate at these similar frequencies. There's, a correlation between our capacity to receive both. And so I tell clients, one of the ways I kind of gauge this with them is like, what is your capacity to receive when you're at someone's house And they're like, Hey, let me. You know, get you something to eat or let me make you some tea. Or is your instinct to jump up and be like, oh no, I'll get it. And that's so common with women, right? Or if you're somewhere with a friend and they're like, oh, I'll get lunch, or Let me get your coffee. And there's this like resistance that comes up, every time. That is a good indicator that, you struggle with a capacity to receive that makes your nervous system uncomfortable because you know, what makes your nervous system uncomfortable? Not things that are necessarily bad, but things that are unfamiliar, so. If, just growing up in your life so far, you've not been accustomed to receiving, you've been more conditioned to give and, produce and serve. There's probably some unfamiliarity, some discomfort around that. And so, like you've said before in the episode, conscious awareness in choosing differently is a big part of the life audit. So little things. Catching yourself, and I've had a lot of success with this, with clients, just catching yourself when you go to protest, just being like, Nope, I'm just gonna, I see the discomfort. I know what it is, it's unfamiliarity. I'm just going to allow myself to receive in this moment. It may seem like something small, but you're actually rewiring your neural pathways to receive and they're killing off those old ones that say that you're not worthy. So even just those little micro habits can make a really big difference in increasing your capacity.

Gina 35:26

If any of you all missed our episode on neuroplasticity, jump on and listen to that and learn how to rewire your brain, especially for this segment. So some of the questions you can ask yourself are, what stories do I tell myself about money? Do I feel guilty receiving, charging, or asking for more? And then what would peaceful money feel like in my body? This is such an interesting topic because you have to understand, I grew up very financially modest, and so those old beliefs will trickle in. And this was just about like six months ago. I was standing in my bathroom I was in the house by myself, alone time, and I got a download, you're too hard on yourself about money. And I was like, huh, okay what does that mean? I always have enough. I pay my bills on time. I have an excellent credit score, all of these things. And yet I'm constantly worried. Do I have enough? And my mindset switched to, girl, you got this. You are really good with handling money. Quit being hard on yourself. And I found a blind spot in my life that was so detrimental and so huge that since that day I tell myself how good I am with money now, with receiving mine was a little bit different. I am a giver and I have to constantly double check myself on receiving. And the biggest life lessons episode will go deep into that one. But receiving, as a giver, it can like, get stuck. So I have to constantly check myself on the receiving mode. So I gave myself a six. What'd you get Kim?

Kim 37:25

I gave myself a five, so I was super close to where you ranked it as well. We live a good life, but I think, I feel like a lot of people would probably rank this pretty low just because, you know, when you were talking about like old stories coming back up mm-hmm. We've all made financial mistakes in the past, and I, for one, I feel a lot of pressure around money. Um, and I always, I think I always have. It's just something that, especially now that we have a business, we have, people to pay and those kind of things, the stakes are higher kids. And kids. And so, there's always that pressure around it of, you know, am I making the right decisions here? We're investing in properties and things and every dollar has to go somewhere you have to reinvest the money or else you're paying just a ton in taxes. And, so it, it can feel tight even though, it shouldn't. So, yeah, there's just that pressure there always. That's the thing that I would like to change, is I would like to not feel that pressure anymore. I would just like to feel abundant, you know? And I would, and, and trust myself that we're not gonna get into some kind of financial issue. And, that would feel great. That's why I kind of ranked it toward the middle because, I don't wanna feel that.

Gina 38:41

Mm. Taylor what kind of advice would you give our listeners that are feeling that kind of pressure? How can we transform the pressure into relaxation or contentment?

Taylor 38:55

Ooh. Okay. So I'm actually, this is a big thing for me in my life. I'm actually binging my fourth book on the energetics of money right now. Really trying to just rewire my own beliefs around it, going from working for the government and getting a salary to being an entrepreneur as really brought up a lot of like money shadows for me, which I already knew about the money shadows, you know, I have a lot of old stuff around. Poverty, shame, growing up the way that I did and like wanting to from a very young age, look like I had money and so overspending and living outside of my means for that. Um, something that was a big part of my journey was not enoughness. And so I think about that in terms of money, in terms of things, everything. It's like when you are operating from a place of lack, from a place of scarcity, when you are trying to fill a void with things or money or followers on Instagram or whatever, it's never gonna be enough. So just real quickly, one of the things for me was like plastic surgery. In my twenties, I had this big thing about anytime a relationship wouldn't work out or whatever, I'd wanna fix something like I needed veneers or I needed, you know, Botox or I needed this done, or I needed a laser treatment. And I started to notice about myself that every time I'd tell myself this story, that doing this one thing. It was gonna be enough. I was gonna feel better. And then every single time, it was never enough. And so I try to think about that as, I wanna grow my platform and I wanna make more money. I try to remember that if I'm doing it from a place of lack and scarcity what does it mean to me? What does money mean to me? If I have something to prove, it's never gonna be enough. I'm gonna be at this income level wanting more, and then I'm gonna get to my goal and I'm gonna want more then. And I'm gonna want more then. And it's never gonna be this place of oh, I'm content. We give money meaning, right? Yeah. That's what I'm really taking away from these books so I'm trying to practice some neutrality around it. And, have goals and have ambition, but at the same time really pay attention to, What my energy and motivation behind it is like, is this because do I really wanna, go up 10% next month because I want to, feel more freedom and safety? Well, how can I start to feel free and safe right now? I think about that a lot. Yeah. I have a lot of freedom in what I'm doing. Mm-hmm. So every time I think, oh, I want more money because I want more freedom, I'm like, I'm free right now. So if I don't feel free right now Yeah. Am I gonna feel free with 20,000 more dollars a month or 50,000 more dollars a year? So trying to create those states internally now while still having, ambition and goals.

Gina 41:41

Yeah. I totally get that. It's always gonna be like this progression of striving for more and more and more, and it's like, when is it gonna end? And what does it all mean? Exactly. And striving for more is awesome. If the energy around it is unpressured, yes. When I think about pressure around money, it takes me to my inner child. So maybe this will help you guys of thinking about your inner child and thinking about how pressured you feel. I feel like that's the little girl in us being like, oh my gosh, we're an adult with all of these responsibilities. Like, oh my God, I own a home and a house and I have a husband, or soon to be husband, and I have all these responsibilities. How does that make my little girl inside feel? And just really working with her to take the pressure off of like, no, I got this. We got this. We're good. You know? So I think maybe I don't know, Kim, like talk to your little inner child and tell her you got this. Tell her there's no pressure and that you're very smart and equipped to handle anything that arises. And just like immediately create that neuro pathway of anytime I feel pressure around money, go to the little girl and comfort her. That's what comes to mind for me.

Kim 43:09

Yeah, that makes sense. The self-talk, I mean, yeah, it's so important what you tell yourself. That's the story that you're creating and that's ultimately the reality you're creating. I think you're right. That's where it starts, is just Start saying, you got this,

Gina 43:24

you know? Yes, absolutely. And when we were prepping for this show, I'm gonna be so vulnerable and honest about this, with my experience of working with quality over quantity, I got a big dose of Gina. You're not gonna get your validation with how many clients you're getting right now.

Speaker 4 43:44

And

Gina 43:45

how much money you're getting right now, you are going to get your feel good by the energy exchange that you exchange with that client. And it hyper-focused me to where it was. Okay. I am not worried about the money coming in. I'm really focused on, oh wow, that was a kickass session. I know I really helped them and that like, that emotional currency that I needed, like jolted into my body.

Taylor 44:19

That's so true. That's so I agree with that so much. That really, that comes up for me a lot. With okay, why am I doing this? You know, what do I want out of it? And then having this like really beautiful experience with another person and being like, oh, this is my purpose.

Gina 44:35

Yeah. And just asking yourself the why behind each one of these eight segments I think will unlock a ton. And something else that I tuned into a couple days ago, you guys, is when I first initially did the audit, I got all like six sevens and eights and I was like, I'm nailing it and my life is great. Don't get me wrong. I love my days. Everything's grand, all of the things. But then when I switch the question to do, I have immense joy in each one of these categories, and I plugged in the word joy. That's when I got a discrepancy in the numbers and I'm like, okay. I can look at it from a bird's eye view and be like, yep, all of that's good. That's taken care of. Yep. Money's flowing. That's good. Relationships, everybody's great. But when I looked at do I have joy in my spiritual connection, do I have joy in my purpose and in my work, it changed it so exponentially for me. I'm like, Ooh, I want more joy there. I wanna have more fun. So that's something that's gonna be incorporated in 2026 for sure. So let's look at body and health. Dun dun. No one wants to look at this. Yes we do. We all wanna look at body and health. All right. Are you treating your body like the enemy to control or a partner to care for? What is my body asking for more of right now? Less of this isn't about perfection, it's about respect. Think about that. Not perfection. It's about respect. So body and health, what are our thoughts, ladies?

Taylor 46:31

I think this is an interesting one that I've definitely struggled with, in terms of like overriding our body's natural messages. I mean, that's what we do with CII will say I have a caffeine problem. I don't know if you would call it a problem. But I do drink a lot of caffeine and I have, slowed down on that in the past year. But when I think of listening to your body, that is a huge way of overriding it. When it's wanting rest and you're like, no more, more productivity, do more things. So yeah, it can feel uncomfortable, and I, in the beginning of my. Spiritual journey would kind of roll my eyes sometimes at people who would be like, oh, my body's saying I need to rest. Or my body's saying that's enough for this week. Or, people that, which is, is actually really smart to cycle sync, is that what you call it when you plan everything around your cycle because of, how it impacts your energy.

Gina 47:26

We, Kim and I tried to do that when we first started the podcast. We tried to do it around our cycles. How

Kim 47:32

did it go?

Gina 47:34

Not

Kim 47:34

well.

Gina 47:35

We, we got off track. We track taking

Kim 47:39

two women's cycles into account. There's a whole lot of days there that got off track, but we,

Gina 47:43

but we tried. Yeah.

Taylor 47:45

Yeah. I give myself grace with this, because I know I have ways that I can improve upon listening to my body. I've definitely gotten a lot better. Um, but I also try to remind myself that I'm up against 30 plus years of conditioning to think a certain way, and then all around us, that's the messaging. That we get. So, it really, it takes time and practice.

Kim 48:08

Yeah, this was one of my much, lower ranked. I think it's a matter of energy for me. I go through spurts where I, walk every morning, workout, eat healthy, and then, maybe one week I don't, and then I'll get back into it and blah, blah, blah. But it feels like my energy is lacking lately. And again, I think that goes back to stress. And we know this is a busy time of year. It's very stressful for women. We just had a podcast about that as well, but my energy feels very low. And I'm with you, Taylor, it's almost like. You know, four cups of coffee just to get myself to be able to do what I need to do. Um, and so yeah, I wish I could have just more natural energy. And I think part of that, I'm seeing as I'm doing this is that I'm doing a lot of stuff that, again, isn't bringing me into alignment, isn't bringing me joy. I've gotta start prioritizing that more. And then everything else is gonna get done, you know, but stop. Sitting down and going, oh, I have to get through all of these emails before I can, do something. That brings me joy. No, it needs to be the other way around.

Gina 49:13

Yeah, absolutely. Do everything that makes you feel joyful and makes you feel good first, and then go into all of the mundane things,

Speaker 4 49:21

mm-hmm.

Gina 49:21

I used to totally, when I looked at health and body, I used to totally treat my body like the enemy. And I used to say really, really awful things about myself and feel super awful So I've gone through. All of that. And um, I'll be raw in telling you this. In December of 2019, I had a plastic surgery procedure done that completely changed my life I had a breast augmentation. Now, for those of you that have not met me in person, you'll be pretty surprised to know that I'm right at five feet, like I'm a tiny person. And I had this procedure done and I woke up that day and I felt like a woman for the first time. I felt so feminine and I didn't feel like a little girl. Like I felt like I went to sleep, woke up a woman for the first time. And since 2019, I've been on this healing journey of finding my womanhood and really loving myself. And no, it doesn't take a surgery to get you there, but that was just the one thing that instigated my kind of revolution. Of, you know, self love and really taking care of my body as a temple. And so it was a really beautiful, beautiful process. And, you know, I do intuitive eating and I alter what I eat in what I do for exercise and all of those things for my health quite regularly because my body will like something one day and it won't like something the next day. And so it's super helpful to be gentle with yourself and just ask yourself, what will make my body feel better in this moment? What will make it feel better? Do you need a walk? Do you need a nap? All of the things. But something that came up while you were talking, Kim, that we can tell our listeners to do is journal about how you want your day to look like. Like, how do you want to wake up? How do you wanna feel? What do you do the first hour or two and write like you're writing a movie on what your day would be like? And little by little you can start to transform your day to get there. It's just like what Kim said in the beginning, 42% more accuracy when you write it down and so really tuning into what your body needs and listening to your own personal barometer system. Place one hand on your heart, one hand on your belly and ask yourself do I want this to eat or do I want this to eat? Do I want this activity or do I not want this activity? But also with body and health, it goes into mind and majority of my health comes from my mind. When you are in alignment, you get this abundance of energy. Even anybody that's ever met me, they're like, oh my God, you were the Energizer bunny. How do you have so much energy? I'm just gonna be honest. Yes, it does come from being in alignment, but it is also genetic. Okay. My parents are freaking nutso. Before my mom had her stroke, she would not sit still. Now, mind you, she may have been, you know, going at it a little bit too hard, but both of my parents are doers and they are constantly in motion and it keeps them young and vibrant and all of those things. So my energy is genetic and from being in alignment. And next up we have home and environment questions You can ask yourself, does my space feel like a sanctuary or a storage unit? What's one corner, one drawer, one room that needs an energetic reset? Think of your home as an altar for your nervous system. How does it feel? Now Kim, you know, my fiance just moved in a few months ago. There's extra belongings. Oh yeah. How is that? It is an extra human being. Mm-hmm. And he, you know, I'm a tiny person so everything feels big to me. And now with my big tall strap, a man living with me with it does feel a little bit, uh, it does feel a little bit tighter, but it feels cozier and lovely also. So I have to add that. How's that closet space? Yes, but I do have like a full blown Costco store in my basement. Like anything you need, girl, come over and shop in my basement. So when is said storage unit, I was like, mm-hmm. Yep. So I know where a little bit of my work can go.

Kim 54:18

Yeah. I bet that is really difficult I never lived on my own. Mm-hmm. In college, I lived with girlfriends, and then went directly to living with Kyle. Mm-hmm. I can't imagine what it's like to live on your own for several years and then to have. Someone move in with you at that point. I imagine that that's, that's a big adjustment. That's a big change.

Gina 54:41

It is, it is. And I've lived with, you know, a couple of other people over the past, but this one felt different because it's permanent, you know? Mm-hmm. Like, he's my fiance and my husband and we're gonna live together forever, and it is gonna be amazing. So it was a little bit of an adjustment just as far as like the abundance of things, because he has things and I have things. Yeah. And, you know, he might have a few more things than I do,

Kim 55:10

but stays in what goes. You gotta have all those conversations.

Gina 55:13

Yes, yes. Yes. But more, but more so I wanna talk about the energy of home and environment. Mm-hmm. Is, does it feel calm? Does it feel safe? Does it feel nourishing? And the answer to that question was an eight for me of like, my home and environment feels really good. Feels really safe and nourishing and sacred also.

Kim 55:39

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I, I put this as a seven. Um, so I ranked all of mine like one to eight Uhhuh. So, um, obviously eight was relationships, so seven was home environment. It was a close second. I'm kind of the same way we've created a sanctuary it feels like. Um, yeah. We are living in our dream home. We're very happy here. Everything's exactly where I want it to be. You know, we've got all the pictures up on the wall and everything, like we're fully, moved in. But it is a weird one for me.'cause we are wanting to move, even though we're happy here, we're, um, we're too far away from the kids' schools. Mm-hmm. And it is really cutting into that travel time. Each day. It's like two and a half hours. It's just, it just takes too much out of our day.

Gina 56:22

It takes two hours. No wonder you're not having enough space in your day.

Kim 56:26

Yes. Now I do have some help now. I, I was doing it all on my own. Now I do have some help, um, because my daughter, Chloe, she started school as well. It's not at the same school. It's still on that side of town. Mm-hmm. And it's two different, like start and end times, but she only goes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So I have some help on those days where. Um, our sitter takes them. Picks them up. Yeah. So I get a little bit of a reprieve, which is nice, but it's still That's good. It's just a lot. Um, it's, and, it's just not sustainable. So we've been looking for a house for over a year now, um mm-hmm. And we're just not finding what we want. We're looking for something like what we have are better. And we also, we want somewhere where Kyle can have an office on our property, but outside of the home. And so we can't have an HOA, you know, they don't typically allow that kind of thing. There's some very specific things that we're looking for. Mm-hmm. And that's not coming And so that's been a little bit frustrating because when you know that you're gonna be moving, it feels unsettled and I'd like to get that over with and, you know, get everything moved and everything, put back in its place exactly how I want it. And then I think that this one will be an eight, but for now, while it, that is all up in the air,, yeah, it's just, it's crazy because again, we love our home. We're so happy here. If I could just move this home over to that side, over to that town, it would be perfect. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, overall, there's a lot of calm, there's a lot of joy. You know, this home is, is wonderful.

Gina 57:58

So something that helped, and I may have talked about this on a podcast before, but something that helped Nicholas and I sell his house, which came up when you were talking about wanting to find the house, is him and I were very much like, we have to sell this house before the winter, we have to sell the house before the wedding. We gotta get this done, we gotta get this off the plate. And it wasn't moving. And then we sat down and talked about how can we switch our perspective on this? And when we switched our perspective to we really wanna sell this house so that we can settle in here and bond together before we get married. It sold that week.

Speaker 4 58:41

And

Gina 58:42

so what if you were to change your perspective to a heart-based one of I would really love to own a new home that's close to the kids' schools so that I can have more time for me and more time for my kids, and so that I can create space or whatever kind of mantra that you want around it. But see if that is helpful in shifting the energy and bringing that perfect house to you.

Kim 59:11

That makes a whole lot of sense actually. I just had a light bulb moment when you were saying that because there's definitely resistance to finding another house for me. Yeah. I don't, there's this part of me that doesn't believe we can find what we're looking for in that area. Mm-hmm. And the resistance of just moving. Nobody wants to move, I look around and I'm like, oh my. Gosh, you know, like all of this stuff. Yeah. And so of course there's resistance there. Um. Mm-hmm. And I'm sure that that's working against me. You know, I, when I manifested this home, I was all in. I wanted it. I was so happy. I was so excited. I'm not feeling excited about moving other than the fact that I'm gonna get my time back. I'm gonna get some space back in my day. Once that happens, there's still, mm-hmm. There's a lot of resistance there. So I need to work on that for sure. I'm just having this light bulb moment of thinking, that's probably why I haven't manifested this

Gina 1:00:06

a hundred percent. Because you have those competing thoughts. You wanna move, but you don't wanna move.

Kim 1:00:11

Yeah.

Gina 1:00:11

And it's like, you gotta rectify that. Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah. So for those of people who listen in

Kim 1:00:16

between forever, which is horrible, you know, nobody wants that.

Gina 1:00:20

Yes. So for those of you listening a little dose of manifestation, if you have a competing thought against your manifestation, guess what? The universe gets pulled. Like someone's on one end of the rope and the another person is on the other end. And you keep on going back and forth and no one wins. So you gotta let go of the side of the resistance so that you win the tug of war. I love it. Love it. So great time to talk about time and energy. So where does my time actually go versus where I say I want it to go? Who or what gets the best of me and who only gets the leftovers? So I wanna invite you, write down your priorities and see where your time and energy matches. So time and energy., I feel like this is my lowest scoring, one of all, because I will look up from my day and I'll be like, what just happened? Because I'm like so much in my intuitive mind, it's like when you get in the car and you arrive someplace and you're like, how'd I get here? A lot of times my days feel like that because I'm so much in my intuitive mind and then I'm coming back down and who's getting my leftovers? And am I getting my leftovers? Is Nicholas just getting my leftovers? So it's something that I really want to tune into and something that I've really worked on this year is my time and energy and creating more space. And I will tell you, creating more time and space in your life is the number one best thing that I've ever done. And I wanna drop like all the F-bombs right now, like effing do it. Create time and space because guess what happens when you create time and space? When I get home from my day, And I have time and space. I'm not tired, I'm not irritable. I don't wanna go upstairs to my bedroom and just watch Netflix, I am lighter, I'm brighter, I feel more free. I'm not irritable, I feel more feminine, more sensual, more inspired, all of those things. So this to me is a really, really big one. What do you all think?

Kim 1:02:46

It was my number one as well as in the worst. Yeah. Which obviously I keep talking about energy, but, and it was the exact, for the exact same reason. I don't have enough open space in my schedule to just sit and think, to brainstorm, to be creative. Mm-hmm. Um, and you know, part of that is i'm always trying to do everything for everyone. And so, I really need to learn how to delegate I think as well, and like stop rushing to help everybody solve their problems, do everything for everybody, um, and start asking for help more.

Taylor 1:03:16

I think that, energy could be an audit in and of itself for people, especially women where there's all this like pressure to not say no to anything and to always do for others. And that was probably one of the most radical shifts for me over the past two years. Was I, I used to feel like if my friends invited me to a dinner that they were having or invited me to do something, I felt like I had to go if I didn't already have plans. And now I just very unapologetically say no and without a reason. I remember probably two years ago, a friend was throwing a birthday party for another friend and mentioned that she was gonna be setting up, and I thought about it, I was like, I'll be in that area around this time. I can come for about an hour and a half and at her house, she made the comment. She said, oh, where do you have to be after this? I said, nowhere. You know what I mean? Yeah. It was like, and she looked at me kind of funny, but it was just like this click of like, I don't have to, me leaving at a certain time doesn't mean I have to be somewhere else. And like, how often do we just make excuses, like, oh, sorry, I've gotta leave early, I've gotta do this. Or if we're not going somewhere, oh, I can't make it because of this. Yeah, you don't owe anybody anything actually. Mm-hmm. I love that. I don't know that will be No, thank you for inviting me. I can't make it.

Gina 1:04:33

Yes, I absolutely love that because that goes into energy and when I'm in groups of people or doing things like that, I always given allotted time. If I get on the phone, I'm like, I have 15 minutes. I'm all yours for this amount of time. Or if I go somewhere but I love the, Nope, I don't have any place to go. This is just the amount of energy I wanna give you is an hour and a half. That's freaking awesome. Genius Taylor.

Taylor 1:05:02

It felt good. Especially sensitive people who, other people energetically feel that you have something to offer them. And so whether it's conscious or not, there's like this. This draining of it, of your life force. And so it's not that, that it's, there's a malicious intent behind it, but it's just this, you're being drained and it's up to you to be like, okay, nope. This is how much time that I have yeah,

Kim 1:05:27

I mean, I'm an introvert and that means I need a lot of time to recoup. I need a lot of alone time. Um, same days. It means I'm not gonna spend, six hours at a party, like, you know? Yeah. It's gonna be like two. And that's just the way open else. Yeah.

Gina 1:05:43

Speaking of partying, let's go into joy. Play in creativity. Some of the questions that you can ask yourself are, when was the last time I felt genuinely playful or inspired? What did your younger me love doing? Just for fun. Joy is not extra. It is fuel. So when I looked at joy, play and creativity, so I am an introvert and just by nature I'm serious. But what I've noticed is that I'm very hard on myself in this area. And if someone says like, do you have a lot of joy in play and creativity in your life? I'm be like, no, I need a lot. And so as I was talking to clients about this life audit and talking about fun, and I even said I was just born a very serious person. They're like, what? You are so fun. That's the response I got. So I'm incorporating that. I'm a fun girl, okay? I'm claiming it and I'm totally bringing it. I'm not claiming I'm serious anymore. I'm gonna claim that I'm a fun person. Um, so. I am creative and I am creative in my daily life. Every moment of my day. And creativity doesn't have to be you're sitting down to write or paint or like do a craft. My creativity is in my business and how I live my life, and I create each day, like I'm creating a movie of like, what do I want this scene about? What do I want to be in this segment of my day? And I use my inspiration, my creativity to inspire my energy to move throughout the day. And so that's something that I've done for quite a while now that I really, really enjoy. But this year I have incorporated more play. And guess what I did? I stopped working so much and I started socializing more. And don't get me wrong, like I am not a social butterfly to say the least, but I've gone outta my way to do like family trips and I went on a trip with my dad. I took my mom on a trip, and then we've been going to football games as families and I have said yes to more fun this year than I have in all my years in the past. So how'd you all score? What do you all think? Uh, I ranked

Kim 1:08:16

this one a four. Mostly because we've got small children right now, so our fun involves, doing kid things, not necessarily grown up things all the time, uh, Uhhuh, but there's some things that came up for me just that, I used to do that I don't do anymore. Again, it's that, that not feeling like I have enough time but, I don't really read anymore. I mean, I listen to audio books, but I don't sit down and read, um mm-hmm. Ever. It just feels like I don't have time for that. Um, I don't play tennis. Anymore, you know, or any kind of racket sport. Me and Kyle have been talking about getting into pickleball forever, and it's just like, well, what are we gonna do with the kids? You know, it's, it's when you're getting babysitters, to go do all these things, bring

Gina 1:08:57

em over to Auntie G's. I'll

Kim 1:08:59

watch those little share of angels. Y'all go play pickleball. I'm gonna take you up on that once a week. Yes. That'd be so fun. So those were just some things that came up for me of like, you know, there's stuff that I really used to enjoy that I've told myself I don't have the time for, but I could work'em in I could start to work those things in a little bit more.

Gina 1:09:20

Okay, so every winter I get very dreamy of what I'm gonna do for my winter.'cause I don't go outdoors'cause it's cold and I'm a wimp. And every winter I'm like, I'm gonna learn how to play an instrument or a language, or write a book. And I always have all of these big things that I'm gonna do in the wintertime and I don't do any of them

Speaker 4 1:09:40

because

Gina 1:09:40

it just, life gets too busy. But I am going to commit to doing one fun thing. Over this winter, I'm gonna choose it. And why don't you choose one fun thing to Yeah, that's a good goal.

Kim 1:09:55

'Cause those are the things that fall by, you know, those are the things that just, you're just like, oh, I just, I don't have time for that. And some of these things like self and spirit and those feel more important. But really when it comes down to it, joy is the most important thing. What are we doing here? Yes. If we're not enjoying our time here, that should be number one.

Gina 1:10:16

Taylor, do you have any last thoughts over joy, play and creativity?

Taylor 1:10:20

Uh, yeah. I mean, I've really reclaimed my whimsy over the past two years. Just part of my journey. I really realized in the people around me, we don't have hobbies as adults and, you know, time and everything else comes into play. Or when I ask clients what their hobbies are, they're like, oh, you know, um, it, it's stuff that's still productive and that's fine, to enjoy things that are productive. That's great. But like, if you did an archeological dig to back to childhood, to something that just like really lit you up, what was it? Something I did was made a list of all these hobbies and started just trying things and that's actually how I started podcasting was like what brings me joy? What kind of things you do that you lose yourself in, you lose track of time in, I think is so important.

Gina 1:11:07

Alright guys, if you've rated any area low, just don't spiral. Okay, just notice awareness is step one. Ask your higher self. What is the next loving step here? Not the perfect step, just the next loving one. So guys, to wrap up our episode, I have an exciting announcement, Taylor and myself. We are gonna be putting on a half day retreat January 17th, 2026. You'll be able to get all of that info on my website and on Taylor's website. Taylor, tell us a little bit about the retreat that you and I are co-hosting.

Taylor 1:11:53

Yeah, so that was just a really beautiful co-creation that just really came in really naturally for us. Based on things we've been seeing with our clients that are in the collective right now, really around women reconnecting with their feminine essence and balancing those masculine and feminine energies. Like what does that even mean? Also around energetic boundaries and kind of like we've talked about today. You know, how do you doing an audit of the relationships in your life and where your energy is being linked out and really reclaim that and bring that back to yourself. I'm definitely gonna be incorporating a lot of astrology. I'm gonna show everyone how to create their birth chart if they don't already know their placements. We're going to be looking at your individual venous placements, because that says a lot about how your soul really wants to express its femininity. There's different archetypes, and so we're gonna be diving into all of those. And yeah, I think it's gonna be, really beautiful.

Gina 1:12:56

Yeah, it's gonna be really great. It's called, divine Feminine Half Day Retreat. We're gonna be diving into the Venus placements. I'm gonna be teaching you all about your intuition and angel cards and diving into healing past traumas. It's gonna be some really, really good stuff. So I'm so excited to co-host that with Taylor thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Taylor, for coming on. If you would like to join us on this half day Divine Feminine Retreat on January 17th, 2026 from 1130 to four 30 at Collective Wellness in Louisville, Kentucky. You can join us in person or via Zoom. The link is in the show notes below, you can visit gina julian scapino.com to sign up or visit Taylor Utley's Instagram and the link is in her bio. Thank you guys for listening.