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In this FYF episode, Lesley Logan highlights community member victories, reflects on inspiring quotes from iconic women, and shares her personal joy in retraining their dog, Bayon. Each story is a reminder that even everyday moments can be deeply empowering. Let this episode encourage you to notice, honor, and celebrate your own wins.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free.In this episode you will learn about:What community support looks like in action.How nighttime routines can be game-changers. Why Bayon, their 9-year old dog needed retraining.What it means to feel proud of the small wins that go unnoticed.Episode References/Links:Inspirational Quotes - https://www.instagram.com/p/DG43gNRI9c5Katie Donnelly's Website - https://thepilatesdoula.comBeyond the Myth Documentary - https://beitpod.com/beyondthemyth If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. https://lovethepodcast.com/BITYSIDEALS! DEALS! DEALS! DEALS! https://onlinepilatesclasses.com/memberships/perks/#equipmentCheck out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSox https://onlinepilatesclasses.com/memberships/perks/#equipmentBe in the know with all the workshops at OPC https://workshops.onlinepilatesclasses.com/lp-workshop-waitlistBe It Till You See It Podcast Survey https://pod.lesleylogan.co/be-it-podcasts-surveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates Mentorship https://lesleylogan.co/elevate/FREE Ditching Busy Webinar https://ditchingbusy.com/ Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq08HES7xLMvVa3Fy5DR8-gLesley Logan website https://lesleylogan.co/Be It Till You See It Podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/Online Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan https://onlinepilatesclasses.com/Online Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjogqXLnfyhS5VlU4rdzlnQProfitable Pilates https://profitablepilates.com/about/ Follow Us on Social Media:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lesley.logan/The Be It Till You See It Podcast YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq08HES7xLMvVa3Fy5DR8-gFacebook https://www.facebook.com/llogan.pilatesLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-logan/The OPC YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@OnlinePilatesClasses Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah Friday. Fuck Yeah. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Hello, Be It babe. Happy June 13th. Oh my God, it's Friday the 13th. That's so exciting. I just discovered that in this moment. So you guys, I am just so excited to be doing this podcast. I've been doing the FYFs more than a year now. This podcast is growing in a beautiful way, and I've just had some amazing guests. I hope you are listening to those interviews, because they're the best. And if you like the recaps before you listen to the interviews, that's fine too. I like a little sneak peek too. I guess I should also say this is a win. But like I did, watch the White Lotus Season Three without googling what happens at the end, because I was behind. So I could have and I was like, Lesley, you will just watch it, because typically, like when I watch any shows, if I get a little anxious or nervous, I will just do that. But that's not my win. I'll have another win, but first I have to celebrate things that are inspiring me. So these Friday episodes, I share things that inspired me. I share your wins. I share a win of mine. I give you a mantra. And these could also be mantras, but we're gonna do them as wins. Like this is an inspiring thing, so I have a bunch of quotes for you from different amazing women, and then I hope that you save them for yourself. So, Madeleine Albright said once, there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. Yeah, there is a special place. Nora Ephron said, above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Maya Angelou, each time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. Oh, that feels good. Joan Baez, you don't get to choose how you're going to die or win. You can only decide how you're going to live now. Michelle Obama, when they go low, we go high. Malala, we realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, well-behaved women seldom make history. That is true. There's a great book about, because she caused a riot, and I just it's all about like non-well-behaved women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, women belong in all places where decisions are being made. Unknown, here's to strong women. May we know them? May we be them? May we raise them? Aretha Franklin, be your own artist, and always be confident what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it. I love this series of amazing, just inspiring quotes, and like the well-behaved women seldom make history, really, truly does inspire the heck out of me. I like see it in a neon sign, and I want it in my office. And that's just because, don't you think sometimes we need reminders? I mean, I think that's probably why I like do this podcast is like, so that you can have a reminder in your ears on your commute, something that, oh, I didn't realize that's a win. That's a win. I have wins in my life. Or oh, wow, I didn't realize that that thing that they said is a Be It Action Item is actually I do that already. I think sometimes we need that outside person to say, you are doing amazing, right? I hope that this podcast can be that for you. And so I hope that those different phrases, like save one and put it on a wall and put it somewhere, stitch it, I don't know, knit it on a pillow. Obviously on how to do things, but like, just whatever one like, really helps you show up for you. Because when you show up for you, as we know from past guests, you influence the bubble that's around you. You do. All right, let's talk about how you can influence each other. We got some wins to share with you. Okay, I got a few from Katie Donnelly, so she's gonna be our win for the day. Katie Donnelly, she's an Agency member. She's gonna be eLevate next year. She's someone I've known since her baby was born. So now I every time her baby is a different age, I'm like, oh my God, that's how long I've known you. And she put, bought my Google workspace for my new website and email address, katie@thepilatesdoula.com baby steps. I'm sharing that with you guys, because if you need a doula, here you go. Katie Donnelly. All right, also, Katie Donnelly posted about a new prenatal reformer class in a local moms group and all of these other wonderful perinatal professionals hyped me up. You guys. I don't have the image, but she did post it, and it was just like several different women talking about how amazing Katie is. And these are like, perinatal professionals. So these are other professionals who are recognizing the, this and Katie and that had to just feel like the win in its own. But also then other women were like, oh my god, I won't be pregnant by that time. Like it just was, like, just so fun. So I really, really appreciate it. And this is like a shout out to the podcast, LL's wins on the pod this week, of loving her new nighttime routine reminded me of a win I should be celebrating. This is a nighttime routine journal my friend published. I've been doing it consistently, not perfectly, for almost nine months. It's so helpful for winding down and practicing gratitude every day. Morning routines are still a challenge for me, but at least I've got one bookend in place, and she has like, a nighttime routine journal. And there's a lot of different journals that are out there, you guys, and I'll see if we can find the one that her friend does and put it in the show notes. But if you are not a morning person, don't let that stop you from starting a nighttime routine. And I love that my win of committing to a nighttime routine reminded her that she has a win she can celebrate. That's why we do this. That's why this entire episode exists every week. Is to remind you that you probably have wins happening in your day, that you're just not celebrating, and we have to celebrate them so that we have something to combat the crap that is coming at us every day, because everything happens like you have a good thing and you have a bad thing, and sometimes we only do the bad things. But just remember there are good things happening, and they might not seem huge, but having a bookend in place to have a nighttime routine meaning you have the best night's sleep, this means that your morning is gonna be better, even if there isn't a routine to your morning like it's just gonna be better because you're great night sleep. So Katie, thank you for sharing that so you can inspire the newest listener who didn't hear my win about nighttime routines being a win. So I just love that. We can just keep that going like a domino effect going. I love it. I'm obsessed. Okay, so now, you guys, a win of mine. So here's the deal, we have the world's sweetest dog. The world's sweetest dog I am obsessed with, Bayon. He is nine years old, and he we got him as a puppy, and he's just so sweet, right? But you know our dog, August, who never followed any rules, caused Bayon to stop following rules, and when you have a pocket pity, he can never be bad, because people make judgments. It's kind of like the expectation you have as a woman, you mess up, you mess up for all women, somehow, that's like, the pressure. No, just me. That's like, a pity, right? Because if you ever want to, like, watch a documentary about how amazing pities are and how they are not as bad as the media likes to proclaim, watch a documentary called Beyond the Myth. It's really, really informative. Because a lot of people think they have long jaws. They don't. I think they have the toughest jaws. They don't. So anyways, Bayon has, like, never caused an issue, never caused a problem, but he stopped listening to us on walks, and so I would have to really make him not pull on my leash. Or when a dog was barking up, he would want to bark at the back of the dog, and it's like, no, that's unbecoming. Yes, that other dog was the asshole first, but you're the one who's gonna be judged. So, you know, bring it together. So anyways, we have been really working with him on this, and found a little tool, we can click, get him treats. And you guys, it's so amazing. He's so cute. He just wants to be right by our side, because it's way more fun to be by our side than it is to pull in front. And so I just want to say you can teach an old dog new tricks, and actually, we're just reminding him tricks he knows. But because of our other dog, we weren't taking him to parties and things like that. So he used to go to public places all the time. And then in the last five years, I guess I blame COVID. We stopped taking him to places. And another win is because of all his training, he went to a birthday party, a huge birthday party who knew no one at. It was loud. There was children. There was kids coming out of there, like touching his head. And Brad had to teach them all how to like this is how you meet a dog you don't know. You got to put your hand like this, calm down, so that you can always pull your fingers back if they react differently. No, don't put your hand on top of their head. No, don't grab their head. And he was just so good. He licked every stranger. He was just so great. My win is we got our dog to be the trained dog that he was already, and we got to celebrate that with him. And it's really fun, because now we can take him everywhere. We literally take him, everywhere. He goes into Costco, where those people, he went to dispensaries the other day, like he's just having the best time. And it's kind of fun to still have a dog you can literally take everywhere. You know how people take little dogs, but like, he's not a little dog, he's a 50 pound dog. And as we come up closer to our summer tour, I'm just even more excited, because he's always been so behaved in people's studios, but I know now that he listens to his naming called again. It's just gonna be a lot more fun as we go on tour and just have a lot more ease. So that's my win. We trained our dog again. Do you see how wins can be simple? They don't have to be this, like goal they've been working on for seven years. I gotta wait seven years to have a goal. No, no, that's not true. All right, let me get your mantra and get you on your weekend. I release the fears that do not serve me, hmm? I release the fears that do not serve me. I release the fears that do not serve me. Babe, do you do that? I hope you do. I really, really hope you do. It's just going to help you out so much better. It's going to make your life so much easier. Release the fears that don't serve you. Be afraid of falling off a cliff when you're at the edge of a cliff, but don't be afraid of falling off a cliff that doesn't exist in your life right now, right? Because it's just wasting your brain space, your beautiful brain space. It could be doing another amazing things. Thank you all so much for listening. Please share our podcast with a friend who needs to hear it, and until next time, Be It Till You See It.That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. 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In this episode, Lesley Logan highlights stories of women using power for good, from world-changing philanthropists to unsung heroes like Marty Goddard. She also shares community wins and a personal productivity breakthrough that proves how small changes lead to big results. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co.And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How the world's richest women are quietly creating real impact.Marty Goddard's invention of the rape kit and why her story matters.How staying top of mind helps Tami-Adrian land another podcast feature.Lesley shares how she simplified her inbox and saved hours of work.Why small wins and consistent action add up to lasting change.Episode References/Links:Laura Craik's Article - https://beitpod.com/lauracraikBuy Back Your Time by Dan Martell - https://a.co/d/cMHFKJR If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. https://lovethepodcast.com/BITYSIDEALS! DEALS! DEALS! 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I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 0:48  Hi, Be It babe. How are you? How's it going? Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast, the Fuck Yeah Friday podcast. We talk about what is a win and we celebrate things that inspire us, and we have a mantra, and then we go about our day. So here we go, our win, or the inspiration, actually. The, well, I think this is a win too. So the inspiration that I found on the internet that really like made me happy. This, maybe, maybe it will make other people happy, but I love this. The title is What the World's Richest Men Could Learn From the World's Richest Women. And this is from Reshma's Instagram account, and Reshma had the bike face talk I'm pretty sure, and I really love her. So instead of fixating on power, living forever and winning the space race, Melinda French Gates, Laurene Powell Jobs, Anne Wojcicki and Mackenzie Scott are quietly trying to make the world a better place. So this goes on and talks about all the different things that these women are doing, but I just think, like, these ladies, I know, I bet you know their last names, these are our five richest women in the world, and they are doing epic, epic things from with the money that they have, and they're not doing anything to tear people down, to tear down a group of people. They're actually using their money for good. And so I truly, truly love that. These women are doing great things and so you should definitely look them up. There's an article from Laura Craick that was posted on February 5th 2025 so if you want to dive in more to what they're doing, and if you want to learn more about Reshma, I highly recommend it, because she talks a lot about worrying, about being, like, I only have a few minutes to say everything I was gonna say, and then, like, learning and meeting all these male CEOs and going, wait, you run this company, I can run circles around you, like, so it's just, I don't know. I found it really inspiring and I hope that you do, too. So go check that out. And let's all be more obsessed with what these women are doing, because I think that that's going to make us feel a whole lot better in this world with all that's going on. And let's be impressed and empowered and, and all the things from them. And then I'm going to give you one more thing, and I'm going to go into your wins. Lesley Logan 2:53  So meet Marty Goddard, the woman who invented the rape kit, while she didn't receive credit for her work, shocking, she revolutionized sexual assault forensics. Yeah. So get this, in the 1970s, few women felt safe. There's tons of sexual abuse. Spousal rate was still, was still legal, freaking crazy, until 1993. Let's not go into that, that's going to depress us all. But Marty Goddard was a volunteer for a phone hotline for runaway teens in Chicago. Many callers reported sexual abuse, but not necessarily to the police. Marty took upon herself to further investigate cases by visiting crime labs and hospitals, interviewing as many people as possible. And a standard was set. In doing this, she developed a standard by which evidence is collected following a rape. Her evidence collection kit included basic supplies, cotton swabs, a comb, paper bags, labeled envelopes and glass slides for semen specimens, plus protocols, forms and resources for victims, its simplicity made it affordable, replicable and the more likely to be adopted. The kit opened doors to our understanding of victims and abuse. In other words, these cases are no longer had to be a "he said, she said" sort of thing. She was not given credit. Under the nonprofit Goddard was running, the kit was trademarked as the the "Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination." She routinely worked very closely with the police department order to make the progress she did, and an effort to not ruffle any feathers, gave the kit the name after police sergeant, Louis Vitullo. Newspapers credited Louis Vitullo, often reducing Marty Goddard to his assistant or ignoring her entirely. But she didn't chase recognition. She channeled her energy into expanding the kit's reach because impact mattered to her more than credit. So why it matters? The mention of the rape kit has helped countless victims find justice. Survivors still fight to be heard, but rape kits provide crucial evidence that strengthens their case. Hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits sit in a police storage. Goddard gave us a tool to fight for justice. It's up to us to push that fight forward with legislative reform funding and by holding law enforcement accountable for processing evidence in a timely manner. So you guys, we do have some work to do there. I would highly recommend calling your local people and like making sure that they're funding these things. But I just thought, how cool is this person? Like she was more she was more obsessed with getting people to adopt this kit and use it so people, victims, could actually get help. So it won't be a "he said, she said" and now she's getting the recognition that she deserves. Very, very cool. Lesley Logan 5:06  Okay, let's go and do a win of yours. So this is from Tami-Adrian George, and she said, a podcast about pickleball reached out to me to be my guest with my topic, Pilates for Players. The invite is a win by itself. And they why they contacted me is its own win. A second host from a completely different topic and show, I guess it's over a year ago, suggested my name with a lovely glow up. Like LL and Brad have said and has mentioned in many webinars, always about keeping in touch. I would comment on the second host post, listen to an episode and comment maybe three or four times a year and they remembered. And when I asked my college boy which friend group he'd be with and where they were going for spring break, he said he just really wants to come home and eat my cooking and curl up with his cats and chill. So cue the mommy tears. You know, I bought that plane ticket so fast. So I love this. How cool is that, that she made such an impact on one podcast and then she stayed in touch by just commenting. And then another podcast was like, oh, we want to have you on. Because the first podcast was like, yeah, this person has stayed top of our mind. So way to stay top of mind. Tam, it's not the easiest thing to do, and you did it. It all takes work, you guys. It all takes time and effort and energy, but stay in touch with people, even little things like liking and commenting. I tell you guys all the time, reviews on this podcast are, like, revenue. If you like this podcast, you don't have to send me money. You can actually just leave a review. Sharing this with other people, that's what does it right? These are things that podcast hosts think about. So way to go, Tami, you're amazing. Lesley Logan 6:37  Okay, so something I wanted to share that's, like, really exciting is I had this goal. So last summer, I heard about this book called Buy Back Your Time, and it's Dan Martell's book. And it's not something I was like, opposed to, like, oh, we always hire so it's not like a thing that we don't do. But he had a chapter about the inbox, about an email inbox, and I between my email inbox and all the Slacks that I'm in and the communities that I'm in, like, there's, I can't get to everything every day, and then I would get into my inbox, or I'd use my inbox to procrastinate, and it would derail the day, because there never would be something in there that wasn't time consuming. And so what his book suggested is that your assistant goes to your inbox and, like, organizes it, and then you only have to respond to the things you have to respond to, and then they can respond to things that they can respond to. I don't need to respond to someone that Tuesday at 1pm is great for a meeting. My assistant can see that 1pm is free. She can just book it for me, right? That's really cool. So anyways, I knew about this last summer, but I didn't have the time to implement it. There were so many things going on. So first of all, the first win is I did not force implementation of this during a time that we had too much going on, right? I set a goal that I wanted to implement this idea in Q1 of 2025, and guess what?, you guys, before mid March, we had, my assistant had, I read the chapter, she read the chapter, she implemented it, and we came up with systems at work before the end of March. So here we are, middle of May, almost end of May. And I can tell you right now I go into my inbox every day, and it can take under 15 minutes to respond to everything and then move on. And I don't feel like, oh my God, what's in there? What am I gonna see? Oh, I'm gonna get distracted by a pair of pants and procrastinate there. So anyways, that's my win. Really made me excited. Lesley Logan 8:14  So now, it's time for your mantra. Here we go. While the world praises big moves, I applaud the little acts of magic that can make it happen. So, while the world praises big moves, I applaud the little acts of magic that that make change happen. You are a badass. Thank you so much for listening until next time, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 8:38  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod.Brad Crowell 9:20  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 9:25  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co.Brad Crowell 9:30  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 9:37  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals.Brad Crowell 9:40  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sinds Amerika opnieuw een oranje opperbevelhebber heeft, heerst er spanning op het wereldtoneel. Dreigementen van handelsoorlogen en landjepik drijven Europa tot het weren van Amerikaanse goederen en diensten. De afhankelijkheid van het land van de cheeseburgers en celebrityworship moet drastisch teruggeschroefd worden. Waar politieke heethoofden het momenteel voor het zeggen hebben, houdt Osmium - de zwaarste podcast in het Nederlands - gelukkig het hoofd koel. Centraal in deze aflevering staat daarom de vraag wat er zou gebeuren als Amerikaanse metal geboycot wordt door de rest van de wereld. Hoe bepalend is het land voor de ontwikkeling van het genre? Welke overwaaiende trends kunnen gestopt worden? Wat is überhaupt de identiteit van Amerikaanse metal? Hoewel het onderwerp aanvankelijk vanuit technocratisch perspectief behandeld wordt, moeten de babbelaars ook diep in hun eigen ziel kijken. Want is hun muzieksmaak niet verrassend Amerika-centrisch? Zijn ze eventueel bereid om hun liefde voor New York hardcore om te ruilen voor hunkering naar Germaanse power metal? Ze doen in ieder geval een eerste poging door muziek te tippen van Grieks slissende spacerock en treurwilgdoom uit de eigen polder. Met muziek van DVDA en Bo Burnham. Onderwerpen: DVDA - America, Fuck Yeah (00:00) Introductie over pelgrimstochten, het niet luisteren van muziek en boekbesprekingen (00:22) Insauzing van het onderwerp: wat als wij Amerika de rug toekeren? (3:40) De inmenging van Amerika in het metallandschap, deel 1 (6:58) Wat is de identiteit van Amerikaanse metal? (10:02) Het aandeel van Amerika op Europese festivals (13:59) De inmenging van Amerika in het metallandschap, deel 2 (16:44) Heeft Europa bands die genres naar nieuwe hoogten stuwen? (19:17) Het grote uitwisselingsprogramma, inclusief grenscontroles (21:53) Dat eeuwige gepreek (27:21) Welke overwaaiende trends gestopt kunnen worden, deel 1 (32:18) Intermezzo: haten op country (33:04) Welke overwaaiende trends gestopt kunnen worden, deel 2 (35:28) Wees het anti-geluid (38:15) Laatste overdenkingen (40:56) Niels' luistertip: Ter Ziele - Embodiment Of Death, treurwilgdoom van eigen bodem dat het gewicht van de wereld op je schouders legt (43:04) Pim's luistertip: Naxatras - V, het bewijs dat er geen goede muziek gemaakt wordt in Griekenland vanwege de slissende S (47:06) Niels' concerttip: Drug Church in Hall Of Fame Tilburg, onderscheidende hardcore met sarcastische en cynische lyrics (51:50) Pim's concerttip: Baroeg Open Air, een line-up met een aantal topbands dat kan rekenen op boodschappentasjespubliek (56:03) Shout-outs (01:02:49) Links: Ter Ziele op Bandcamp Naxatras op Bandcamp Drug Church in Hall Of Fame Baroeg Open Air

We kicked off with an AI-crafted banger—think Billie Eilish meets Satan in three minutes —that started holy and ended with “good's dumb, evil rules.” It's so Crow-level epic, we gave it four gold stars while wondering if anyone's banged to it yet. Spoiler: Nope, just morning fuckers here. The Kid becomes a musical madman, churning out Dropkick Murphys vibes for St. Paddy's and plotting an all-AI radio station. No humans, just alt-rock, techno, and a grizzled robot DJ named Vince Skinwell spinning chaos. Then shit got wet—squirting medallions for first-timers hit the table, from proud gushers to whiskey dick disasters forcing the splash. Towels on standby, folks. Next up: Snootchie's Vibratoes, the Hooters-killer where waitresses rock numbered jerseys and you control their vibrating panties. Crank it to 200 or edge ‘em ‘til they're sobbing into your fries—genius!  We also nerd-raged about “I did it first” dorks (guilty!), laughed at hell's epic concert lineup (suck it, Christian rock), and dropped a “Trump's America, Fuck Yeah!” remix—golden showers, Russian bots, and hypocrisy included. This episode's a glorious mess of evil anthems, wet triumphs, and vibrating insanity. Catch it now. Listen in. Go Deep.

Sexologist Alexa Andre (@sexwithalexa) sits down with Sarah Tomchesson, Certified Sex Educator, Embodied Intimacy Coach, Marketing Director for Magic Wand and host of the Fuck Yeah podcast, to talk about one of the most sought-after yet misunderstood experiences: full body orgasms. Recorded in Costa Rica at the Shameless Sex Retreat, this episode dives deep into what full body orgasms really are, how they happen, and how you can tap into them.Sarah shares her journey from discovering sex-positivity in college to becoming a leading voice in pleasure-based sex education. We talk about how shame, stress, and disconnection block pleasure, and how somatic techniques, breathwork, and body awareness can help you reclaim your pleasure and access deeper orgasms.We also cover:

Zwischen Reeperbahn und Elbphilharmonie, Möwengeschrei und Schiffshorn-Gedröhne, salziger Luft und Fisch-Geruch. In dieser Folge besucht Nike die quirlige Stadt im hohen Norden: Hamburg. “Mein Lieblings-Sex Toys sind Hände.” : Im Gespräch mit Nadine Beck, Autorin, Kuratorin sowie Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin, beleuchtet sie die Bedeutung von SexualKULTUR und spannende Details über das Vibatorium und Nadine's Buch: “Sex in Echt”. P.S.: Wann ist der richtige Zeitpunkt, Kinder über Sex aufzuklären? Nadine erklärt, warum es oft klüger ist, zu warten, bis sie von selbst Nachfragen – ein überraschender Ansatz, der zum Umdenken anregt! Hast du Lust auf ein feministisches Abenteuer? Dann ist ROOM8 genau das Richtige! Nike spricht mit Elisa Steinke über das Mietstudio, das intime und einladende Räume schafft – perfekt für ein besonderes Liebesabenteuer. Und falls ihr auch Lust auf einen eigenen Liebesraum in eurem Zuhause sucht, hört Elisa aufmerksam zu, denn sie verrät uns, worauf sie besonderen Wert gelegt hat. Nachdem Nike mit Elisa Steinecke gesprochen hat, schlendert sie durch die Straßen von Hamburg und entdeckt den “Fuck yeah” Sexshop. Auf hellbraunen Holzkisten stehen Dildos, Penistoys und Vibratoren. Weiter hinten im Regal stehen Binder, Brustprothesen und Menstruation Zubehör, ordentlich nebeneinander gereiht. In einer kleinen gemütlichen Bücherecke reiht sich ein Regal mit Büchern über Sex, feministische Fach- und Sachliteratur, sowie Romane und Comics aneinander. Im Kollektiv-Laden wird Nike von Nino begrüßt und wir werden auf eine kleine akustische Tour durch den Fuck yeah Sexshop mitgenommen. Nino erzählt Nike von der Idee des Sexshops und erklärt uns, welche Angebote es gibt und für was diese zu gebrauchen sind: Toys, Gender Expression, Körper & safer sex, Merch und Bücher. Nino und Nike reden auch über die Wichtigkeit der Inklusiven Sprache und welche Rolle sie im Sexshop hat. Der Fuck yeah Sexshop ist ein Ort, der dazu einlädt, sich wohlzufühlen und neugierig zu stöbern. Eine Folge voller inspirierender Gespräche über Sexualität, Selbstbestimmung und kulturelle Innovation in der Hamburger-Szene. Willkommen und viel Spaß bei Sex in Hamburg!

Want More or Less? Click Here: Simplistic.Reviews/links It's that time of the year! November ... which brings us a early Christmas gift, NEIL MOTHER FUCKING BREEN! FUCK YEAH! Except this year we got a lump of coal called Pass Thru...ugh. Pass Thru | 2016 An artificial intelligence from the future visits the Earth to kill all humans. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5445074/   Site: Simplistic.Reviews Podcasts: https://simplistic.media/podcasts Spotify: https://goo.gl/pcBg5V Twitter: https://twitter.com/simpletweeters Facebook: http://facebook.com/SimplisticReviews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simplygramming iTunes: https://goo.gl/orhsR4#movie    #Commentary #GoodBadMovies #Podcast #NeilBreen #PassThru

Want More or Less? Click Here: Simplistic.Reviews/links It's that time of the year! November ... which brings us a early Christmas gift, NEIL MOTHER FUCKING BREEN! FUCK YEAH! Except this year we got a lump of coal called Pass Thru...ugh. Pass Thru | 2016 An artificial intelligence from the future visits the Earth to kill all humans. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5445074/   Site: Simplistic.Reviews Podcasts: https://simplistic.media/podcasts Spotify: https://goo.gl/pcBg5V Twitter: https://twitter.com/simpletweeters Facebook: http://facebook.com/SimplisticReviews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simplygramming iTunes: https://goo.gl/orhsR4#movie    #Commentary #GoodBadMovies #Podcast #NeilBreen #PassThru

In this solo episode, Lesley reflects on the importance of giving yourself permission to slow down and feel your emotions, especially during tough times. She shares how she allowed herself to grieve after the loss of her mentor, Jay Grimes, and emphasizes celebrating even the smallest wins. Tune in to hear inspiring listener achievements and discover practical ways to balance speed with stillness in your own life.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Katie Donnelly overcoming self-doubt in launching her website.Allyn Wong taking time off and completing business tasks.Reflections on the loss of a mentor and creating space to grieve.Experiences and lessons learned from Jay Grimes about Pilates.Episode References/Links:The Pilates Doula  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. DEALS! Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSox Be in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar  Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramFacebookLinkedIn  Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah Friday.  Brad Crowell 0:01  Fuck yeah.  Lesley Logan 0:05  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Hi, Be It babe. Happy September. How are you? First Friday of September. What a fun day. I'm sure somewhere where you live, there might be a First Friday event. Have you seen those? They're really great ways to get in your community and get to know people. What is this episode about? Well, this is the FYF, meaning, Fuck Yeah, Friday meaning, let's celebrate some wins along the way. So can you celebrate a win when you complete a project? Absolutely, you may even hear me say that. Can you celebrate a win that's just like a moment of oh my god, that actually went really, really well? Yes, you can. And that's what we talk about a lot. So I share wins of yours that you send me, and I share a win of mine, and I leave you with a fun little mantra. So let's get into it. Our first FYF is from Katie Donnelly. Okay, I had a lot of fear stepping into this title. All my greatest hits of who am I to claim this title? I don't know enough, what if I'm seen as wrong, but I took the first step and check it out. Katie Donnelly has launched the website, thepilatesdoula.com. Congratulations, Katie, and thank you for sharing those greatest hits because it definitely makes all of us like, do you do that listener? Like, my love, do you ever go like, who am I? I shouldn't be doing this. Someone else should be doing this. Oh, like, we're looking for permission to be amazing when you already are. And Katie Donnelly is amazing. She actually did a wonderful workshop for us over on onlinepilatesclasses.com which is a pre and postnatal workshop. And, holy moly, I'm not someone who's having children in my life, but I am making every one of my friends who's getting pregnant watch that course. So it's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Thank you, Katie, for letting us celebrate this big moment with you. And also, you guys, just want to say, I checked out her website. Okay? And just two days before (inaudible) she bought the URL. So the website right now is just a website with just a beautiful picture and ways to get in touch with her. You don't have to complete everything to the perfect degree to celebrate the win. You can actually celebrate that you just got the first step done or the second step done. So thank you, Katie, for being an example of that. Allyn Wong said I took, nobody's around, hahaha, two days off from teaching this week, and created a welcome automation email via MailChimp. This is hard for me, so I'm glad it's done and I'm looking forward to seeing if it makes a difference regarding engagement. I also made a Kuna Board and a Gondola poll, posted three times on Insta, got my studio ceiling repainted after it leaked last week, created and ordered new business cards and postcards to put around town, planned a new cola with a pelvic floor P.T. for September, October. I mean, my goodness, so I just want to say, like, I love she took two days off, and it's because, right now it's summer, and so she didn't have any clients. But you can look at us like no one's here or you can actually look what you can get done and, holy moly, look at all these different wins she had. I really love that you celebrated all of these things, big and small, the automation welcome series is so much work and so much tech, but you also did some fun, creative stuff, and you got out into the community. Just truly amazing. Allyn, thank you so much for sharing these with us. All right, my win, this is gonna feel like a really, a really weird win. I'm just sharing with you now, because I've been traveling, and so I was recorded ahead of time, but on July 29th my mentor passed away. I'm gonna try not to cry. I can do this. And I knew he was sick and I was able to see him in April, Brad and I were able to make it happen on a long way home. So from Arizona, we went to L.A. to get to Vegas. But, I got to see him. We got to spend some hours with him, which was just beautiful. But I normally am someone who's like, well, gotta keep going. Gotta, like, normally, I should say, years ago, it's been a while since someone passed, but like, just, would have just tried to get through the whole day, and instead, I actually decided to feel my feelings and take things off my plate. So I still did some work, mostly out of distraction, but I allowed myself to feel my feelings and share how I was feeling and connect with other people who got to learn from him. Jay Grimes is a very special person. And for years, I felt so honored and lucky and blessed, and sometimes wondered how I got to train with him, and I no longer think any of those things. I actually know I got to train with him because I put the work in to train with him. He also is someone who was a man of few words but the words that he did say were really impactful and really important. And so I actually spent the day sharing stories with different friends, remembering them with him. And I've actually still been I've been doing that the last month since then, just as I remember people, I remember something I've been doing that. And you're like, what is the win? The win is in creating a business and a life and a schedule for myself that allowed me to feel the feelings I need to feel, and take the break that I needed to take. And yes, the show had to go on the next day, and I had to do some things. And grief isn't linear, so I'm not, I don't think I'll ever be over it, but I am very, I'm very grateful, and it is a win that I was able to take that time. And so if you are going through a loss, or if something comes up, or you get information that kind of throws a wrench in your day, giving yourself permission to fill your feelings is a win, right? So I thought I would share a really fun story about Jay with you, because you gotta (inaudible) the game. So first of all, one of his, one of my, I have so many favorite sayings from him, but one of them is, "We don't change the work. The work changes us." And another one is, "You do Pilates because you love your body, not because you hate it." I really loved how he allowed everybody to do Pilates, and he knew that everybody can have access to it, and the more they love themselves, the more they're curious in it, the more that Pilates practice would be there. So I just love that. But here's a funny story. So he would say, if you don't like an exercise, then you have to do it twice. That's because you need it. And he said it all the time. But I was in the program with him, so that the, towards the end of 2016, and it was the last weekend of of workshops of the program and so we'd all been quite cozy and fun and whatever. And so he had mentioned that if someone doesn't like an exercise, it's because they need it, so they're going to do it twice. And so, like, I don't know, 20 minutes later, not even that much longer, but it was far enough away, but he didn't realize he was saying, we're on the line rail. And (inaudible) came up and was like, oh, I hate that exercise. And I was like, oh, sounds like someone's got to do it twice. And he looked at me with that look only a parent could have, like, I can't believe you just said that to me right now, but also a smile on his face, like, and he said who let her in here? It was just a funny moment that I'll never forget, and I'm really grateful for that. So, my love, if you've got something going on, give yourself permission to take something off your plate and then celebrate that you did that. That's a win. All right, your mantra for today, because I don't plan a mantra ahead of time. I just pick one. I do not rush through my life, I temper speed with stillness. Oh, that's so perfect. I do not rush through my life, I temper speed with stillness. Say it with me. I do not rush through my life, I temper speed with stillness. My love. No more rushing. Temper your speed with stillness. And thank you so much. Please send your wins in so we can celebrate you on our next FYF and until next time, Be It Till You See It.That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod.Brad Crowell 8:56  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 9:01  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co.Brad Crowell 9:05  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi. Lesley Logan 9:12  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals. Brad Crowell 9:15  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Surprise!!New Podcast Name!! Wohoooo!!!Welcome welcome!The Unfuck Your Money Podcast is for coaches, practitioners, and Soul-led entreprenurs who are ready to step into their unfuckwithable energy! With my direct, edgy and fun approach to money, the purpose of this podcast is to help you break through your financial blocks, release unhealthy money patterns, and cultivate a sexy and secure relationship with money.Are You Ready to Shake Things Up!Fuck Yeah!!

America, Fuck Yeah! This week we take time to be more than our obnoxious selves and go full Merica!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comThe hustle, the friendliness, the informality, the unshakeable faith that we can be anything we want to be — all while drinking Diet Coke and huffing donuts. Fuck yeah, America! In honor of July 4, Nancy and Sarah celebrate our country's bounty in the long shadow of all that is wrong. (For example: Presidential debate!) Nancy and Sarah can't quite decide: Is the American experiment over? Or does our scrappy country of constant reinvention have more time on the clock? Also discussed:* The freedom to not wear pants* Let Joe Biden rest!* Is Smoke Em podcast the Fireside Chats of 2024?* Free speech and great tits!* Morgan Spurlock, RIP* Diet Coke, a “horrible bath of ick” that we love* Sarah learns to free-style, drops a verse, immediately regrets this* America's greatest export is …* Sarah discovers she's average!* Name That Founding Father: The Pop QuizPlus, Nancy proves she's never seen Hamilton, how to make $1.08 last a decade, a history of oliebollen donuts, and more!Oh say can you see, it's the paid subscriber button.

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Annie Rejects Her Shame Annie finally rejects her abstinent life and finds how much joy a cock can bring her. By spr1987 for Literotica. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.  “Oh my God… it feels so hot in my hand… and how can it be this hard and this soft feeling at the same time?”  These are the thoughts racing through my mind, as I feel a real live cock in my hands for the first time. I know what you are thinking, “You are 19 years old Annie, and you are pretty hot looking… so how can this be the first time you have had a cock in your hands?”First, thank you for saying I'm hot. As a petite red head with a larger than normal pair of tits, I think I'm pretty hot also, but it is always nice to hear it. Second, I was raised in a very religious home, and sex was absolutely forbidden. In fact, my mother even made a habit of checking my panties and bedsheets to make sure that I wasn't masturbating. Yes, I realize now how twisted that sounds. But it was how I was raised, to think that self-pleasure and sex were mortal sins. Hell, even now I feel guilty every time I touch myself. Not to mention that right now, I am feeling pretty wrong emotionally, about this cock in my hands. Although I am feeling the guilt from years of conditioning, I can't help feeling a rush of excitement all through my body, as I squeeze and rub this thick cock. I am assuming it is thick. I have no basis for this judgement because, as I said several times already, this is my first cock. All I know is that I can't get my small hand around it and when I stack both of my hands, there is still all of the big swollen head left sticking out. My God that head looks big. I catch myself thinking that it looks like the helmet of one of those stormtrooper guys from Star Wars. I have to swallow the laugh that is threatening to burst out of me. I trace my fingers around that big helmet, and I am surprised at how smooth the skin is. I trace my finger along the groove in the front and the whole cock Jumps in my hands. I look up at the guy's face, wondering if I did something wrong or hurt him or something. I see that he has his eyes squeezed shut tightly and his mouth is open in an audible moan. I make a mental note that this is a good thing. At this same time, I feel and see liquid leak out of the cock's slit. I touch it and I like how slick it feels on my fingers. I rub it between my thumb and finger and relish the slick feeling. Then I run my slick fingers around the smooth cock head. I love how slippery it feels on the smooth skin of the head. I trace my slick fingers all around the edges of the cock's helmet.  “It is like I am trying to memorize every detail of my fascinating new plaything.” I run my other hand down to the bottom of his shaft and discover his balls. I cup them and feel them move around in their soft wrinkled sack. I roll them around in my fingers, enjoying how they move so fluidly. I sort of ring my fingers around behind them and pull them down, enjoying how the sack stretches tight and I can feel the balls hard in my hand. I squeeze, just to see what this will feel like. The guy almost screams out, “Oh my God, Yes,” when I do that. I make another mental note, that this is a good thing. Then I wonder, what will happen if I squeeze his balls at the same time as I rub my finger along his tender groove? “Fuck yes.” he screams out, as I try this experiment. Well, that confirms my thesis, I smile to myself and continue to gently pulse his big full balls in one hand, while teasing his sensitive head with my other. I think to myself, I am so glad that he likes this because I really love how this feels for me when I am doing it. I start to wonder,  "How the Hell, have I never heard about how amazing cocks and balls feel?“  I have talked with quite a few other girls about their sexual experiences, and I can't remember a single one telling me how amazing cocks felt in their hands.  "I fucking Love this,”  I think to myself as I really concentrate on the feeling of this cock and those full balls in my hands. Then the thought enters my head, “If it feels this good in my hands, how will it feel in my mouth?” I immediately hear my mother's voice in my head chastising me, “You should be ashamed of yourself Annabeth, for even thinking such a thing.” Then I tell the guilt wielding mother in my head, “Shut the fuck up Mother… and it is Annie… Nobody calls me Annabeth anymore.” Then I show her that she is no longer the boss of me, as I take this big cock into my mouth. Well, to be honest, I take the head and maybe another inch or so in my mouth. “My God, this thing is big. Are they all This big?” I wonder to myself as I feel that swollen thick head push into the soft spot at the roof of my mouth. I pull my mouth off of it enough, so that I can suck my lips around the helmet. I run my tongue around the smooth head, as I suck my cheeks around it. “Oh my God, this feels so exciting and so naughty,” I think to myself as I feel like I will pee myself from the overwhelming exhilaration. I am suddenly yanked from my moment of bliss, when I feel the guy's hands grab my head almost violently. Again, thinking that I hurt him, I try to pull my mouth off of his cock. He latches on even harder and almost begs, “No, Please don't stop… keep doing That…” Relieved that I am not doing it wrong, I go back to doing what I was just doing. As I run my tongue around his smooth head and down the shaft as far as I can reach my tongue, I moan around the cock, as I recover my overwhelming feeling of exhilaration at the feel of this cock on my lips, and on my tongue, and on the fleshy insides of my cheeks. I slide all of them over and around this cock, as I rediscover the feeling of his big balls in my hand. Overcome by the sensations of this cock in my mouth, I can't stop my other hand from sliding under my skirt and into my thong. Um, I am so fucking wet. I push two fingers into my wet pussy. My pussy feels so wet and squishy and warm around my fingers. I wonder if this is what his cock feels when it is in my mouth. I start to imagine that my fingers and his cock are the same. I start to push my mouth on his cock more and more, as I push my fingers deeper and deeper inside myself. I move up and down on his cock at the same speed as I am pushing my fingers into me. When I begin to gag myself by forcing his cock into my mouth so fast and so deep, I realize how fast and desperately I am finger fucking myself. It is at that exact moment that I push myself over the edge and cum Streaming around his cock. I didn't realize how close he was, until at that same time, I feel his cock swell even larger and twitch in my mouth as I feel hot surges hitting the back of my throat. Because I am in the middle of an uncontrolled scream,  “I feel his cum continue to shoot directly down my throat. I can actually feel it coating my throat.”  Then I start coughing uncontrollably, because, as I was riding my overpowering orgasm, I was also desperately gasping for breath. I hope I didn't breathe his cum into my lungs. For a fleeting moment, I wonder if it is possible to drown from cum in my lungs? As I get control of my breathing, I realize that I am not going to drown. I am twice as relieved, knowing that my mother will not have to recover my body from the university, after learning that I died by drowning in cum, as I sucked the cock of a guy I just met. Jeff… or Jake… or is it Jim? I am pretty sure it is a “J” name. I hope it is the overpowering orgasm I just had that is keeping my brain from recalling his name, and not the fact that I am a total slut who sucks the cock of a guy she doesn't know the name of. As I contemplate how much of a slut I really am, I start to think,  "Well, if I am going to condemn myself for being a slut, I might as well go all the way.“  In that moment, I decide that I am getting fucked for the first time. Well, that is if this guy… J.. something, can get his cock hard again. Realizing the decision is in my hands… literally… I am holding his softening cock in my hand… I start to slowly squeeze and stroke it. Figuring that I should get J… J… J-dog involved in the decision, I say to him,  "Um, I loved how your cock felt in my mouth… I would love even more to feel what he is like in my pussy… You want to feel your big, thick cock deep inside me?” “Fuck Yeah,” he enthusiastically agrees. Then in a more subdued way he adds, “But you got to give me a minute… You know… to get ready…” I do in fact know what he means. I can feel his cock in my hand, clearly not ready to do the pushing that I so desperately need right now. It is not an unpleasant feeling though. I actually really enjoy the soft, flexible feeling of his cock in my hand. It is not fully soft, but just hard enough to weigh heavily in my hand. I squeeze it and I love the way it compresses. It feels like a very warm stress toy. I realize how much I would love to have a cock in this exact state, when I am stressed in class or doing an assignment in my dorm. I shake it and flop it around in my hand and love the way it moves. “I am suddenly jealous, that guys get to have these things with them all the time. Then I wonder if they hold them and squeeze them when they need stress relief?” He taps me on the head and rips me from the labyrinth of my twisted thoughts. It is then that I realize that his cock is Very much up for the task at hand… again, my hand… “Don't you think you should take off your clothes? Or do you just want me to bend you over and flip up your skirt?” he asks me. “Oh My,” I think to myself, as I suddenly get the image in my head of him forcing me over the arm of the couch and taking me from behind like an animal. Battling with myself in my mind, I think I should lead him to think I am a lady and do this in a dignified manner. However, I realize that I fucking need this Bad and I need it Now. Standing up, I reach under my skirt and almost tear my thong as I pull it off my hips and down my legs. Then I turn toward the arm of the couch and lean over it, as I spread my legs. As I turn to look back at him, the desperate look on my face, is all the answer he needs. I keep looking back as he aims his cock toward my wet, waiting, and Very willing pussy. He doesn't even use his hands as he pushes it against my swollen and Very sensitive pussy lips. He moves back and forth slightly, making his cock slide along my wet groove. Oh my God, the feeling of the big smooth head is even more amazing against the lips of my pussy, than it was against the lips of my mouth. I squeeze my pussy, trying to kiss it… to suck it into me… I feel his cock start to push my lips open. I realize that he is not moving, it is me, who is moving back, desperately trying to fuck myself onto his cock. I feel him slightly pull back with each of my thrust back. I look up to see him grinning at the desperate look on my face. I finally beg out loud,  "Please… put it in… Please… fuck me… Please… Fuck me Now…“ Without a word he pushes his cock right into me. I gasp out loud as I literally feel like all of the air is pushed out of my lungs. I am not sure how deep he went with that first thrust, but I feel like I am impaled on the damn thing. I feel so full that I am afraid I will tear in half, if he pushes any deeper. Surprisingly, it is not painful though. Luckily for both of us, I broke my hymen in a tragic accidental fall on a dildo… Okay, I was masturbating. I said my mother made me feel guilty about it. I never said that I didn't do it. And thank God that I did. This may be the first real cock inside me, but it is Definitely not the first time I have had cock like objects inside me. And my God, the number of cock like objects I have inside me… Well, let's just say I have been training Very hard for this moment. Yet, for all of the training I have done, None of it compares to what this feels like for real. Fuck, the heat and hard flexibility of this cock inside me… It is almost indescribable. I feel like he is entering my soul. I feel like his cock is in control of my body and mind. I want this… I want this a Lot. Then, just when I am deciding that this feeling is better than anything I can imagine, he starts to move slowly out and then back in… and it gets better… Much better. I feel like he is turning me inside out, as he slowly pulls his cock out of me. Then he holds it with just the head inside me, keeping me spread so wide. I get desperate for more. Why the Fuck is he holding it there? I look back pleadingly. I see him smile at me with a devilish grin and then, Slam, he pushes all the way back inside me. Three things happen at the same time.  I feel him pound deep inside me. His big heavy balls Slap against my WAY oversensitive clit. I actually see stars and lose control of my legs as I cum so hard that I am afraid I popped a blood vessel in my head.  I am not sure if I lose consciousness, but as I ride the most amazing orgasm of my life, I feel like I am flopping around like my whole body is made of jelly, as he continues to hammer away in and out of me. When I feel fluids gushing out of my pussy, I am mortified, thinking that I must have lost control of myself and peed all over his cock, balls and thighs. He suddenly stops fucking, with his cock half inside me. I am afraid that he is grossed out by my loss of control. I am sure that I will be humiliated when everyone at the university hears about "Annie the incontinent slut”. Then he surprises me by saying,  “Fuck Yeah… You're a squirter. I never fucked a squirter before. That was fucking amazing.”  “That shit splashed out of you so hard, I felt like someone turned a hose on me.” With my face so red that I am sure it is glowing, I ask him, “So you are not grossed out by That?” “Fuck No,” he answers and then starts pushing his cock back in and out of me. I am embarrassed by the loud squishing and squelching sounds his cock is making as he fucks in and out of me. Then I feel a weird new feeling. It is like there is a surge of water into me with each thrust in, and a much stronger suction with each pull out. As I realize that I am building to another orgasm, he warns me, “I got to tell you, after I cum once, I can keep going for a Very long time after. The thoughts of this amazing cock fucking me for a Very long time, sends waves of exhilaration through me and I Clench around his cock, telling him,  "Give me All you got…  Fuck me hard and long…  fuck me until I can't walk.” My spontaneous haiku has the desired effect, and he Slams into me so hard that his hips Slap on my ass and it stings like he spanked me with his hand. I feel him grab my hips with both hands. He grabs so hard that I can feel his fingers dig into the soft flesh in the hollows of my hip bones. Then just as quickly he releases them, and I feel his hands reach up to unbutton my blouse. Feeling him fumbling with them, I reach up and take over. I quickly have the buttons undone and I wildly flap my arms trying to throw the blouse off of me. As my blouse finally flies off my wildly flailing arm, I feel his hands grab my bra clasp and almost violently pull it open. Leaning forward like I am, the bra Snaps open and falls down my arms. My 36 double D tits that were straining hard against my bra, are now free and wildly flapping their wings trying to fly away. Well, more flopping than flapping. With each of his hard thrusts into me, I feel my heavy tits bounce forward and Slap against my neck and shoulders. Then I feel them recoil and Slap back against my rib cage and under my arms. Yes, in case you missed it, they are all natural and definitely out of my ability to control them. He is relentlessly fucking me, and I can already feel my heavy tits start to ache from their wild flopping and bouncing. I am about to reach up to catch them with my hand and arm, to try to stop the bouncing, when I feel him reach around and cup each of my tits in his hands. I feel him hold them just enough, so that that they jiggle and bounce in his hands. The rubbing of my nipples on his palms is driving me fucking insane. He Squeezes my tits and weighs them appreciatively, as he tells me, “You've got fucking amazing tits. I love these big fucking tits.” Then for emphasis, he takes my nipples between his fingers and thumbs, and pulls, and rolls, and Pinches them, which pushes me over a cliff I wasn't even sure I was standing next to. “Fuck,” I Scream out loud, as once again I feel my fluids gush out of me and my arms give out, as I fall on my face, having another overwhelming orgasm. As my pussy squeezes and spasms around his cock inside me, I keep getting electric shocks of overstimulation, which makes my orgasm continue like a series of explosions that won't end. All I can think about is the overpowering pleasure and the feeling of that cock filling me and touching me so completely. I have never done drugs, but I imagine this feeling of euphoria must be what drug addicts feel. I know right then and there that I will need to feel this all the time, from now on. I am suddenly pulled from my post orgasm bliss, by a new sensation. As he continues to slowly push in and out of my pussy, he starts to lightly tease my sensitive butt hole with his thumb. It feels like he is thrumming my sensitive ring with his thumb, like it is a guitar string or something. There is something very naughty and very exciting about it. It is also sending electric shocks of excitement through my entire body with each thrum of his thumb. Each thrum seems to short circuit my brain and it also seems to excite every nerve inside my already overstimulated pussy. I feel my excitement being driven higher and higher. I feel like it will become too much for my body and mind to handle, and I will fucking explode. “Fuck,” I Scream out, as he changes from a thrumming of my butt hole to a thumping of his thumb on it. Oh my God… I have Never felt anything like this, and it is making my entire body twitch and spasm with each thump. He is doing it at a faster pace now and I can almost feel my pulse beating faster to match his thumping pace. I suddenly realize that I am loudly moaning in a rhythmic pattern, “Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,” over and over, with each thump of his thumb on my butt hole. I also realize that I am pushing back onto his cock desperately to meet his cock pushing into me, at the same pace. I also feel myself pushing back onto that fucking thumb, that is driving me insane. Feeling how positively my body is reacting to his teasing, on the next thump, he doesn't stop. He pushes his thumb right past my tight ring. I loudly Gasp, “Oh,” as I feel his thumb Pop past my tight butt hole. I notice immediately how wet and slippery his thumb is, from all of the fluids I recently squirted all over him. I also notice that his thumb doesn't feel anything like I thought it would. I had thought about anal sex before, but always dismissed the idea because I imagined that it would hurt quite badly. But this… this feels Very different than I feared it would. As I start to squeeze my butt around his thumb, sort of getting a better feel of my sudden intruder, I realize that he is slowly pushing and pulling it in and out of me, in time to his cock's motion in my pussy. I realize that I Really like this double stimulation. I start to grind back again, pushing his cock and thumb into me harder and faster. I suddenly feel a desperate need for more. I want him fucking me deep and hard in both of my holes. An image enters my brain of getting fucked like this by two different men… two cocks… one in my pussy and one in my butt… oh my God… do I really want to feel a cock in my butt??? His cock is so much bigger than his thumb, but that damn thumb feels so fucking good right now… These are all the random, wild thoughts racing through my head as I come to the conclusion,  “Hell Yes, I want to know what his cock will feel like in my butt.” Before I can chicken out, I turn my head back and meekly tell him,  "You can put it in my… butt… You know… fuck my butt… if you want…“ "Oh God Yes,” he almost shouts, as I feel him quickly pull his cock from my pussy. I feel empty, physically and emotionally, as that cock is suddenly ripped away from me. However, that emptiness is just as quickly filled when I feel him push that cock right into my butt. Fortunately for me, he didn't jam it in as deep and as fast as he did when he first entered my pussy. However, it was hard and deep enough to make me feel like I am trying to suck all the oxygen out of the air as I Gasp from the sudden intrusion. As my whole body Clenches in response to the large visitor in my butt, I feel like someone is touching me with live wires. Shock after shock races through my body, and my mind is short circuited as it tries to decide on the right response to having a cock suddenly shoved into my virgin butt hole. Finally, my brain settles on pleasure, and I realize that my whole-body clench is relaxing, and I am releasing my butt hole's death grip on his cock. He feels me relax and starts to slowly push more of his cock into me. This makes my brain reconsider its decision and my body puts on the breaks again, resuming my butt's death grip on his cock. He stops again, which causes my brain and body to give in again. After a seemingly endless series of stops and starts, I feel his hips press against my round fleshy butt, and I realize that he is fully inside me. And when I say fully, I mean Full. I never imagined such a full feeling. I feel like he is touching places that I didn't even know I had inside me. In fact, I think he is pushing up against my pancreas. Where the heck is the pancreas anyway? It's got to be up in there somewhere, right? All thoughts of my pancreas fly out of my head as I feel him slowly draw his cock out of me. I feel like he is pulling my soul out of me through my butt. I almost laugh as I think about the movie “Riddick”, and the scenes where the Necromancer guy is pulling a person's soul out of them. Except in my case, he is doing it from my butt hole. My urge to laugh is suddenly replaced by an overwhelming pleasure as he draws his cock along something VERY sensitive inside me. I moan out loud as I feel something so fantastic, it should have its own emoji. Then he pushes back in, causing me to start speaking in a language I have never heard before. I think if I could translate the words into English, they would come out as,  "Oh my god that feels amazing. Fuck me Harder with that amazing cock of yours. Pound me until my guts spill out of my mouth.“  Instead, to my ears the words sound like,  "Arga ah ah Gah; gahd…” Lucky for me, that he is fluent in “Cock Hungry Whore” or he is able to read my mind, because he starts to hammer into me fast and hard. This apparently rattles my brain enough that I can speak English again and I cry out,  "God! Yes! More! Please!“ Like a true gentleman, he gives me exactly what I asked for. I have to brace my hands to keep from being driven face first into the couch again. I feel my tits flopping wildly again. They even Slap me in the face, as I look down and back, to see if I can see his cock pushing into me. That will teach me to get in the way of those things when they are bouncing out of control. The sudden realization that his heavy balls are Slapping against my sensitive pussy with each thrust, takes my mind off my swinging tits, and drives me headlong toward the cliff of another powerful orgasm. As he bottoms out and Slap against my pussy one more time, I cum so hard that I let out a scream so high pitched that only dogs can hear it. At that same time, I feel his cock twitch inside me and his hands Clamp around my hips, as he shoots surge after surge after surge of cum Deep inside me. Then he collapses on top of my exhausted body. He is much larger than me and rather muscular. I feel like he will crush me. Again, my mind drifts to my mother and what she will think about her daughter, being crushed to death, with the man's cock still hard in her ass.  "Get out of my head Mom… Let me enjoy the feeling of this cock slowly softening in my butt,” I shout in my mind. As I push all thoughts of my mother out of my head, I begin to really enjoy the feeling of this cock inside my butt. It is still so hot. My God, it is like it is on fire, warming me from the inside. And as it softens, I feel it slowly pulling from me. I feel my butt clenching, trying to hold this cock inside me. I don't want it to go. I want to keep feeling this cock inside me. I am almost afraid of how empty I will feel when he is finally out of me. Then Pop, his cock finally pulls from my clenching butt hole. As I feared, I feel empty and long for the cock that was just in my butt. “Justin… That's his name,” I realize. Then I laugh at the way my brain finally came up with that, as I thought about his cock “just in” my butt. Hearing me laughing unexpectedly, he asks me, “What… What's so funny?” Unable to control my laughter, I try to explain,  "Justin… your name… and you were just in my butt… and just in my pussy… and just in my mouth…“  At that point I begin laughing so hard that I can't say any more. He barks out a laugh and says,  "You idiot… my name is Jason."  Then he continues laughing as he sees the surprised look on my face. If I could lift my arm, I would slap my palm against my head. Instead, I begin laughing hysterically again. We are now both laughing so hard that I feel both of our bodies shaking uncontrollably. Thank God he finally rolls off of me though, or I would have literally died laughing. Well, at least I would go out having been so thoroughly fucked. Although I would die happy, I sure as Hell would not be happy dying. As I lay here in the afterglow of pleasure I could never have imagined before, all I can think about is,  "When can I do this again? When can I feel THIS again?”  This may have been my first experience with a real cock, but I know for sure that it will Definitely not be my last. I want more… so much more. I want to know if all cocks feel like That or if it is just Justin… Jason… whoever… that can make me feel THIS.  Even now I am thinking about that God of a man in my Chemistry class, and whether a guy that big will have a bigger cock than Jason. Then there is that guy with the dark chocolate skin who lives on the floor above mine in the dorm… Is it true what they say? I am so going to find out. I suddenly realize that there are a great many cocks in the world for me to sample… and I want to sample as many as I can… I laugh at myself and how just a few hours ago, I was worrying myself to death over whether I was finally going to give up my virginity tonight. After years of being told how immoral sex outside of marriage is, and how sex for other than procreation is a sin,  I was so wrought with guilt for wanting to experience it. Now, I can't imagine going without this ever again. Fuck procreation and fuck my mother. I fucking Love the way THIS feels, and there is no fucking way I am abstaining from this ever again.  In fact, I can't wait to get my next cock in my hands… in my mouth… in All of me. I have so much lost time to make up for and I can't wait to start… By spr1987 for Literotica  Rejects Her Shame Annie finally rejects her abstinent life and finds how much joy a cock can bring her. By spr1987 for Literotica. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. “Oh my God… it feels so hot in my hand… and how can it be this hard and this soft feeling at the same time?”  These are the thoughts racing through my mind, as I feel a real live cock in my hands for the first time. I know what you are thinking, “You are 19 years old Annie, and you are pretty hot looking… so how can this be the first time you have had a cock in your hands?” First, thank you for saying I'm hot. As a petite red head with a larger than normal pair of tits, I think I'm pretty hot also, but it is always nice to hear it. Second, I was raised in a very religious home, and sex was absolutely forbidden. In fact, my mother even made a habit of checking my panties and bedsheets to make sure that I wasn't masturbating. Yes, I realize now how twisted that sounds. But it was how I was raised, to think that self-pleasure and sex were mortal sins. Hell, even now I feel guilty every time I touch myself. Not to mention that right now, I am feeling pretty wrong emotionally, about this cock in my hands. Although I am feeling the guilt from years of conditioning, I can't help feeling a rush of excitement all through my body, as I squeeze and rub this thick cock. I am assuming it is thick. I have no basis for this judgement because, as I said several times already, this is my first cock. All I know is that I can't get my small hand around it and when I stack both of my hands, there is still all of the big swollen head left sticking out. My God that head looks big. I catch myself thinking that it looks like the helmet of one of those stormtrooper guys from Star Wars. I have to swallow the laugh that is threatening to burst out of me. I trace my fingers around that big helmet, and I am surprised at how smooth the skin is. I trace my finger along the groove in the front and the whole cock Jumps in my hands. I look up at the guy's face, wondering if I did something wrong or hurt him or something. I see that he has his eyes squeezed shut tightly and his mouth is open in an audible moan. I make a mental note that this is a good thing. At this same time, I feel and see liquid leak out of the cock's slit. I touch it and I like how slick it feels on my fingers. I rub it between my thumb and finger and relish the slick feeling. Then I run my slick fingers around the smooth cock head. I love how slippery it feels on the smooth skin of the head. I trace my slick fingers all around the edges of the cock's helmet.  “It is like I am trying to memorize every detail of my fascinating new plaything.” I run my other hand down to the bottom of his shaft and discover his balls. I cup them and feel them move around in their soft wrinkled sack. I roll them around in my fingers, enjoying how they move so fluidly. I sort of ring my fingers around behind them and pull them down, enjoying how the sack stretches tight and I can feel the balls hard in my hand. I squeeze, just to see what this will feel like. The guy almost screams out, “Oh my God, Yes,” when I do that. I make another mental note, that this is a good thing. Then I wonder, what will happen if I squeeze his balls at the same time as I rub my finger along his tender groove? “Fuck yes.” he screams out, as I try this experiment. Well, that confirms my thesis, I smile to myself and continue to gently pulse his big full balls in one hand, while teasing his sensitive head with my other. I think to myself, I am so glad that he likes this because I really love how this feels for me when I am doing it. I start to wonder,  "How the Hell, have I never heard about how amazing cocks and balls feel?“  I have talked with quite a few other girls about their sexual experiences, and I can't remember a single one telling me how amazing cocks felt in their hands.  "I fucking Love this,”  I think to myself as I really concentrate on the feeling of this cock and those full balls in my hands. Then the thought enters my head, “If it feels this good in my hands, how will it feel in my mouth?” I immediately hear my mother's voice in my head chastising me, “You should be ashamed of yourself Annabeth, for even thinking such a thing.” Then I tell the guilt wielding mother in my head, “Shut the fuck up Mother… and it is Annie… Nobody calls me Annabeth anymore.” Then I show her that she is no longer the boss of me, as I take this big cock into my mouth. Well, to be honest, I take the head and maybe another inch or so in my mouth. “My God, this thing is big. Are they all This big?” I wonder to myself as I feel that swollen thick head push into the soft spot at the roof of my mouth. I pull my mouth off of it enough, so that I can suck my lips around the helmet. I run my tongue around the smooth head, as I suck my cheeks around it. “Oh my God, this feels so exciting and so naughty,” I think to myself as I feel like I will pee myself from the overwhelming exhilaration. I am suddenly yanked from my moment of bliss, when I feel the guy's hands grab my head almost violently. Again, thinking that I hurt him, I try to pull my mouth off of his cock. He latches on even harder and almost begs, “No, Please don't stop… keep doing That…” Relieved that I am not doing it wrong, I go back to doing what I was just doing. As I run my tongue around his smooth head and down the shaft as far as I can reach my tongue, I moan around the cock, as I recover my overwhelming feeling of exhilaration at the feel of this cock on my lips, and on my tongue, and on the fleshy insides of my cheeks. I slide all of them over and around this cock, as I rediscover the feeling of his big balls in my hand. Overcome by the sensations of this cock in my mouth, I can't stop my other hand from sliding under my skirt and into my thong. Um, I am so fucking wet. I push two fingers into my wet pussy. My pussy feels so wet and squishy and warm around my fingers. I wonder if this is what his cock feels when it is in my mouth. I start to imagine that my fingers and his cock are the same. I start to push my mouth on his cock more and more, as I push my fingers deeper and deeper inside myself. I move up and down on his cock at the same speed as I am pushing my fingers into me. When I begin to gag myself by forcing his cock into my mouth so fast and so deep, I realize how fast and desperately I am finger fucking myself. It is at that exact moment that I push myself over the edge and cum Streaming around his cock. I didn't realize how close he was, until at that same time, I feel his cock swell even larger and twitch in my mouth as I feel hot surges hitting the back of my throat. Because I am in the middle of an uncontrolled scream,  “I feel his cum continue to shoot directly down my throat. I can actually feel it coating my throat.”  Then I start coughing uncontrollably, because, as I was riding my overpowering orgasm, I was also desperately gasping for breath. I hope I didn't breathe his cum into my lungs. For a fleeting moment, I wonder if it is possible to drown from cum in my lungs? As I get control of my breathing, I realize that I am not going to drown. I am twice as relieved, knowing that my mother will not have to recover my body from the university, after learning that I died by drowning in cum, as I sucked the cock of a guy I just met. Jeff… or Jake… or is it Jim? I am pretty sure it is a “J” name. I hope it is the overpowering orgasm I just had that is keeping my brain from recalling his name, and not the fact that I am a total slut who sucks the cock of a guy she doesn't know the name of. As I contemplate how much of a slut I really am, I start to think,  "Well, if I am going to condemn myself for being a slut, I might as well go all the way.“  In that moment, I decide that I am getting fucked for the first time. Well, that is if this guy… J.. something, can get his cock hard again. Realizing the decision is in my hands… literally… I am holding his softening cock in my hand… I start to slowly squeeze and stroke it. Figuring that I should get J… J… J-dog involved in the decision, I say to him,  "Um, I loved how your cock felt in my mouth… I would love even more to feel what he is like in my pussy… You want to feel your big, thick cock deep inside me?” “Fuck Yeah,” he enthusiastically agrees. Then in a more subdued way he adds, “But you got to give me a minute… You know… to get ready…” I do in fact know what he means. I can feel his cock in my hand, clearly not ready to do the pushing that I so desperately need right now. It is not an unpleasant feeling though. I actually really enjoy the soft, flexible feeling of his cock in my hand. It is not fully soft, but just hard enough to weigh heavily in my hand. I squeeze it and I love the way it compresses. It feels like a very warm stress toy. I realize how much I would love to have a cock in this exact state, when I am stressed in class or doing an assignment in my dorm. I shake it and flop it around in my hand and love the way it moves. “I am suddenly jealous, that guys get to have these things with them all the time. Then I wonder if they hold them and squeeze them when they need stress relief?” He taps me on the head and rips me from the labyrinth of my twisted thoughts. It is then that I realize that his cock is Very much up for the task at hand… again, my hand… “Don't you think you should take off your clothes? Or do you just want me to bend you over and flip up your skirt?” he asks me. “Oh My,” I think to myself, as I suddenly get the image in my head of him forcing me over the arm of the couch and taking me from behind like an animal. Battling with myself in my mind, I think I should lead him to think I am a lady and do this in a dignified manner. However, I realize that I fucking need this Bad and I need it Now. Standing up, I reach under my skirt and almost tear my thong as I pull it off my hips and down my legs. Then I turn toward the arm of the couch and lean over it, as I spread my legs. As I turn to look back at him, the desperate look on my face, is all the answer he needs. I keep looking back as he aims his cock toward my wet, waiting, and Very willing pussy. He doesn't even use his hands as he pushes it against my swollen and Very sensitive pussy lips. He moves back and forth slightly, making his cock slide along my wet groove. Oh my God, the feeling of the big smooth head is even more amazing against the lips of my pussy, than it was against the lips of my mouth. I squeeze my pussy, trying to kiss it… to suck it into me… I feel his cock start to push my lips open. I realize that he is not moving, it is me, who is moving back, desperately trying to fuck myself onto his cock. I feel him slightly pull back with each of my thrust back. I look up to see him grinning at the desperate look on my face. I finally beg out loud,  "Please… put it in… Please… fuck me… Please… Fuck me Now…“ Without a word he pushes his cock right into me. I gasp out loud as I literally feel like all of the air is pushed out of my lungs. I am not sure how deep he went with that first thrust, but I feel like I am impaled on the damn thing. I feel so full that I am afraid I will tear in half, if he pushes any deeper. Surprisingly, it is not painful though. Luckily for both of us, I broke my hymen in a tragic accidental fall on a dildo… Okay, I was masturbating. I said my mother made me feel guilty about it. I never said that I didn't do it. And thank God that I did. This may be the first real cock inside me, but it is Definitely not the first time I have had cock like objects inside me. And my God, the number of cock like objects I have inside me… Well, let's just say I have been training Very hard for this moment. Yet, for all of the training I have done, None of it compares to what this feels like for real. Fuck, the heat and hard flexibility of this cock inside me… It is almost indescribable. I feel like he is entering my soul. I feel like his cock is in control of my body and mind. I want this… I want this a Lot. Then, just when I am deciding that this feeling is better than anything I can imagine, he starts to move slowly out and then back in… and it gets better… Much better. I feel like he is turning me inside out, as he slowly pulls his cock out of me. Then he holds it with just the head inside me, keeping me spread so wide. I get desperate for more. Why the Fuck is he holding it there? I look back pleadingly. I see him smile at me with a devilish grin and then, Slam, he pushes all the way back inside me. Three things happen at the same time.  I feel him pound deep inside me. His big heavy balls Slap against my WAY oversensitive clit. I actually see stars and lose control of my legs as I cum so hard that I am afraid I popped a blood vessel in my head.  I am not sure if I lose consciousness, but as I ride the most amazing orgasm of my life, I feel like I am flopping around like my whole body is made of jelly, as he continues to hammer away in and out of me. When I feel fluids gushing out of my pussy, I am mortified, thinking that I must have lost control of myself and peed all over his cock, balls and thighs. He suddenly stops fucking, with his cock half inside me. I am afraid that he is grossed out by my loss of control. I am sure that I will be humiliated when everyone at the university hears about "Annie the incontinent slut”. Then he surprises me by saying,  “Fuck Yeah… You're a squirter. I never fucked a squirter before. That was fucking amazing.”  “That shit splashed out of you so hard, I felt like someone turned a hose on me.” With my face so red that I am sure it is glowing, I ask him, “So you are not grossed out by That?” “Fuck No,” he answers and then starts pushing his cock back in and out of me. I am embarrassed by the loud squishing and squelching sounds his cock is making as he fucks in and out of me. Then I feel a weird new feeling. It is like there is a surge of water into me with each thrust in, and a much stronger suction with each pull out. As I realize that I am building to another orgasm, he warns me, “I got to tell you, after I cum once, I can keep going for a Very long time after. The thoughts of this amazing cock fucking me for a Very long time, sends waves of exhilaration through me and I Clench around his cock, telling him,  "Give me All you got…  Fuck me hard and long…  fuck me until I can't walk.” My spontaneous haiku has the desired effect, and he Slams into me so hard that his hips Slap on my ass and it stings like he spanked me with his hand. I feel him grab my hips with both hands. He grabs so hard that I can feel his fingers dig into the soft flesh in the hollows of my hip bones. Then just as quickly he releases them, and I feel his hands reach up to unbutton my blouse. Feeling him fumbling with them, I reach up and take over. I quickly have the buttons undone and I wildly flap my arms trying to throw the blouse off of me. As my blouse finally flies off my wildly flailing arm, I feel his hands grab my bra clasp and almost violently pull it open. Leaning forward like I am, the bra Snaps open and falls down my arms. My 36 double D tits that were straining hard against my bra, are now free and wildly flapping their wings trying to fly away. Well, more flopping than flapping. With each of his hard thrusts into me, I feel my heavy tits bounce forward and Slap against my neck and shoulders. Then I feel them recoil and Slap back against my rib cage and under my arms. Yes, in case you missed it, they are all natural and definitely out of my ability to control them. He is relentlessly fucking me, and I can already feel my heavy tits start to ache from their wild flopping and bouncing. I am about to reach up to catch them with my hand and arm, to try to stop the bouncing, when I feel him reach around and cup each of my tits in his hands. I feel him hold them just enough, so that that they jiggle and bounce in his hands. The rubbing of my nipples on his palms is driving me fucking insane. He Squeezes my tits and weighs them appreciatively, as he tells me, “You've got fucking amazing tits. I love these big fucking tits.” Then for emphasis, he takes my nipples between his fingers and thumbs, and pulls, and rolls, and Pinches them, which pushes me over a cliff I wasn't even sure I was standing next to. “Fuck,” I Scream out loud, as once again I feel my fluids gush out of me and my arms give out, as I fall on my face, having another overwhelming orgasm. As my pussy squeezes and spasms around his cock inside me, I keep getting electric shocks of overstimulation, which makes my orgasm continue like a series of explosions that won't end. All I can think about is the overpowering pleasure and the feeling of that cock filling me and touching me so completely. I have never done drugs, but I imagine this feeling of euphoria must be what drug addicts feel. I know right then and there that I will need to feel this all the time, from now on. I am suddenly pulled from my post orgasm bliss, by a new sensation. As he continues to slowly push in and out of my pussy, he starts to lightly tease my sensitive butt hole with his thumb. It feels like he is thrumming my sensitive ring with his thumb, like it is a guitar string or something. There is something very naughty and very exciting about it. It is also sending electric shocks of excitement through my entire body with each thrum of his thumb. Each thrum seems to short circuit my brain and it also seems to excite every nerve inside my already overstimulated pussy. I feel my excitement being driven higher and higher. I feel like it will become too much for my body and mind to handle, and I will fucking explode. “Fuck,” I Scream out, as he changes from a thrumming of my butt hole to a thumping of his thumb on it. Oh my God… I have Never felt anything like this, and it is making my entire body twitch and spasm with each thump. He is doing it at a faster pace now and I can almost feel my pulse beating faster to match his thumping pace. I suddenly realize that I am loudly moaning in a rhythmic pattern, “Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,” over and over, with each thump of his thumb on my butt hole. I also realize that I am pushing back onto his cock desperately to meet his cock pushing into me, at the same pace. I also feel myself pushing back onto that fucking thumb, that is driving me insane. Feeling how positively my body is reacting to his teasing, on the next thump, he doesn't stop. He pushes his thumb right past my tight ring. I loudly Gasp, “Oh,” as I feel his thumb Pop past my tight butt hole. I notice immediately how wet and slippery his thumb is, from all of the fluids I recently squirted all over him. I also notice that his thumb doesn't feel anything like I thought it would. I had thought about anal sex before, but always dismissed the idea because I imagined that it would hurt quite badly. But this… this feels Very different than I feared it would. As I start to squeeze my butt around his thumb, sort of getting a better feel of my sudden intruder, I realize that he is slowly pushing and pulling it in and out of me, in time to his cock's motion in my pussy. I realize that I Really like this double stimulation. I start to grind back again, pushing his cock and thumb into me harder and faster. I suddenly feel a desperate need for more. I want him fucking me deep and hard in both of my holes. An image enters my brain of getting fucked like this by two different men… two cocks… one in my pussy and one in my butt… oh my God… do I really want to feel a cock in my butt??? His cock is so much bigger than his thumb, but that damn thumb feels so fucking good right now… These are all the random, wild thoughts racing through my head as I come to the conclusion,  “Hell Yes, I want to know what his cock will feel like in my butt.” Before I can chicken out, I turn my head back and meekly tell him,  "You can put it in my… butt… You know… fuck my butt… if you want…“ "Oh God Yes,” he almost shouts, as I feel him quickly pull his cock from my pussy. I feel empty, physically and emotionally, as that cock is suddenly ripped away from me. However, that emptiness is just as quickly filled when I feel him push that cock right into my butt. Fortunately for me, he didn't jam it in as deep and as fast as he did when he first entered my pussy. However, it was hard and deep enough to make me feel like I am trying to suck all the oxygen out of the air as I Gasp from the sudden intrusion. As my whole body Clenches in response to the large visitor in my butt, I feel like someone is touching me with live wires. Shock after shock races through my body, and my mind is short circuited as it tries to decide on the right response to having a cock suddenly shoved into my virgin butt hole. Finally, my brain settles on pleasure, and I realize that my whole-body clench is relaxing, and I am releasing my butt hole's death grip on his cock. He feels me relax and starts to slowly push more of his cock into me. This makes my brain reconsider its decision and my body puts on the breaks again, resuming my butt's death grip on his cock. He stops again, which causes my brain and body to give in again. After a seemingly endless series of stops and starts, I feel his hips press against my round fleshy butt, and I realize that he is fully inside me. And when I say fully, I mean Full. I never imagined such a full feeling. I feel like he is touching places that I didn't even know I had inside me. In fact, I think he is pushing up against my pancreas. Where the heck is the pancreas anyway? It's got to be up in there somewhere, right? All thoughts of my pancreas fly out of my head as I feel him slowly draw his cock out of me. I feel like he is pulling my soul out of me through my butt. I almost laugh as I think about the movie “Riddick”, and the scenes where the Necromancer guy is pulling a person's soul out of them. Except in my case, he is doing it from my butt hole. My urge to laugh is suddenly replaced by an overwhelming pleasure as he draws his cock along something VERY sensitive inside me. I moan out loud as I feel something so fantastic, it should have its own emoji. Then he pushes back in, causing me to start speaking in a language I have never heard before. I think if I could translate the words into English, they would come out as,  "Oh my god that feels amazing. Fuck me Harder with that amazing cock of yours. Pound me until my guts spill out of my mouth.“  Instead, to my ears the words sound like,  "Arga ah ah Gah; gahd…” Lucky for me, that he is fluent in “Cock Hungry Whore” or he is able to read my mind, because he starts to hammer into me fast and hard. This apparently rattles my brain enough that I can speak English again and I cry out,  "God! Yes! More! Please!“ Like a true gentleman, he gives me exactly what I asked for. I have to brace my hands to keep from being driven face first into the couch again. I feel my tits flopping wildly again. They even Slap me in the face, as I look down and back, to see if I can see his cock pushing into me. That will teach me to get in the way of those things when they are bouncing out of control. The sudden realization that his heavy balls are Slapping against my sensitive pussy with each thrust, takes my mind off my swinging tits, and drives me headlong toward the cliff of another powerful orgasm. As he bottoms out and Slap against my pussy one more time, I cum so hard that I let out a scream so high pitched that only dogs can hear it. At that same time, I feel his cock twitch inside me and his hands Clamp around my hips, as he shoots surge after surge after surge of cum Deep inside me. Then he collapses on top of my exhausted body. He is much larger than me and rather muscular. I feel like he will crush me. Again, my mind drifts to my mother and what she will think about her daughter, being crushed to death, with the man's cock still hard in her ass.  "Get out of my head Mom… Let me enjoy the feeling of this cock slowly softening in my butt,” I shout in my mind. As I push all thoughts of my mother out of my head, I begin to really enjoy the feeling of this cock inside my butt. It is still so hot. My God, it is like it is on fire, warming me from the inside. And as it softens, I feel it slowly pulling from me. I feel my butt clenching, trying to hold this cock inside me. I don't want it to go. I want to keep feeling this cock inside me. I am almost afraid of how empty I will feel when he is finally out of me. Then Pop, his cock finally pulls from my clenching butt hole. As I feared, I feel empty and long for the cock that was just in my butt. “Justin… That's his name,” I realize. Then I laugh at the way my brain finally came up with that, as I thought about his cock “just in” my butt. Hearing me laughing unexpectedly, he asks me, “What… What's so funny?” Unable to control my laughter, I try to explain,  "Justin… your name… and you were just in my butt… and just in my pussy… and just in my mouth…“  At that point I begin laughing so hard that I can't say any more. He barks out a laugh and says,  "You idiot… my name is Jason."  Then he continues laughing as he sees the surprised look on my face. If I could lift my arm, I would slap my palm against my head. Instead, I begin laughing hysterically again. We are now both laughing so hard that I feel both of our bodies shaking uncontrollably. Thank God he finally rolls off of me though, or I would have literally died laughing. Well, at least I would go out having been so thoroughly fucked. Although I would die happy, I sure as Hell would not be happy dying. As I lay here in the afterglow of pleasure I could never have imagined before, all I can think about is,  "When can I do this again? When can I feel THIS again?”  This may have been my first experience with a real cock, but I know for sure that it will Definitely not be my last. I want more… so much more. I want to know if all cocks feel like That or if it is just Justin… Jason… whoever… that can make me feel THIS.  Even now I am thinking about that God of a man in my Chemistry class, and whether a guy that big will have a bigger cock than Jason. Then there is that guy with the dark chocolate skin who lives on the floor above mine in the dorm… Is it true what they say? I am so going to find out. I suddenly realize that there are a great many cocks in the world for me to sample… and I want to sample as many as I can… I laugh at myself and how just a few hours ago, I was worrying myself to death over whether I was finally going to give up my virginity tonight. After years of being told how immoral sex outside of marriage is, and how sex for other than procreation is a sin,  I was so wrought with guilt for wanting to experience it. Now, I can't imagine going without this ever again. Fuck procreation and fuck my mother. I fucking Love the way THIS feels, and there is no fucking way I am abstaining from this ever again.  In fact, I can't wait to get my next cock in my hands… in my mouth… in All of me. I have so much lost time to make up for and I can't wait to start… By spr1987 for Literotica

Annie Rejects Her Shame Annie finally rejects her abstinent life and finds how much joy a cock can bring her. By spr1987 for Literotica. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.  “Oh my God… it feels so hot in my hand… and how can it be this hard and this soft feeling at the same time?”  These are the thoughts racing through my mind, as I feel a real live cock in my hands for the first time. I know what you are thinking, “You are 19 years old Annie, and you are pretty hot looking… so how can this be the first time you have had a cock in your hands?”First, thank you for saying I'm hot. As a petite red head with a larger than normal pair of tits, I think I'm pretty hot also, but it is always nice to hear it. Second, I was raised in a very religious home, and sex was absolutely forbidden. In fact, my mother even made a habit of checking my panties and bedsheets to make sure that I wasn't masturbating. Yes, I realize now how twisted that sounds. But it was how I was raised, to think that self-pleasure and sex were mortal sins. Hell, even now I feel guilty every time I touch myself. Not to mention that right now, I am feeling pretty wrong emotionally, about this cock in my hands. Although I am feeling the guilt from years of conditioning, I can't help feeling a rush of excitement all through my body, as I squeeze and rub this thick cock. I am assuming it is thick. I have no basis for this judgement because, as I said several times already, this is my first cock. All I know is that I can't get my small hand around it and when I stack both of my hands, there is still all of the big swollen head left sticking out. My God that head looks big. I catch myself thinking that it looks like the helmet of one of those stormtrooper guys from Star Wars. I have to swallow the laugh that is threatening to burst out of me. I trace my fingers around that big helmet, and I am surprised at how smooth the skin is. I trace my finger along the groove in the front and the whole cock Jumps in my hands. I look up at the guy's face, wondering if I did something wrong or hurt him or something. I see that he has his eyes squeezed shut tightly and his mouth is open in an audible moan. I make a mental note that this is a good thing. At this same time, I feel and see liquid leak out of the cock's slit. I touch it and I like how slick it feels on my fingers. I rub it between my thumb and finger and relish the slick feeling. Then I run my slick fingers around the smooth cock head. I love how slippery it feels on the smooth skin of the head. I trace my slick fingers all around the edges of the cock's helmet.  “It is like I am trying to memorize every detail of my fascinating new plaything.” I run my other hand down to the bottom of his shaft and discover his balls. I cup them and feel them move around in their soft wrinkled sack. I roll them around in my fingers, enjoying how they move so fluidly. I sort of ring my fingers around behind them and pull them down, enjoying how the sack stretches tight and I can feel the balls hard in my hand. I squeeze, just to see what this will feel like. The guy almost screams out, “Oh my God, Yes,” when I do that. I make another mental note, that this is a good thing. Then I wonder, what will happen if I squeeze his balls at the same time as I rub my finger along his tender groove? “Fuck yes.” he screams out, as I try this experiment. Well, that confirms my thesis, I smile to myself and continue to gently pulse his big full balls in one hand, while teasing his sensitive head with my other. I think to myself, I am so glad that he likes this because I really love how this feels for me when I am doing it. I start to wonder,  "How the Hell, have I never heard about how amazing cocks and balls feel?“  I have talked with quite a few other girls about their sexual experiences, and I can't remember a single one telling me how amazing cocks felt in their hands.  "I fucking Love this,”  I think to myself as I really concentrate on the feeling of this cock and those full balls in my hands. Then the thought enters my head, “If it feels this good in my hands, how will it feel in my mouth?” I immediately hear my mother's voice in my head chastising me, “You should be ashamed of yourself Annabeth, for even thinking such a thing.” Then I tell the guilt wielding mother in my head, “Shut the fuck up Mother… and it is Annie… Nobody calls me Annabeth anymore.” Then I show her that she is no longer the boss of me, as I take this big cock into my mouth. Well, to be honest, I take the head and maybe another inch or so in my mouth. “My God, this thing is big. Are they all This big?” I wonder to myself as I feel that swollen thick head push into the soft spot at the roof of my mouth. I pull my mouth off of it enough, so that I can suck my lips around the helmet. I run my tongue around the smooth head, as I suck my cheeks around it. “Oh my God, this feels so exciting and so naughty,” I think to myself as I feel like I will pee myself from the overwhelming exhilaration. I am suddenly yanked from my moment of bliss, when I feel the guy's hands grab my head almost violently. Again, thinking that I hurt him, I try to pull my mouth off of his cock. He latches on even harder and almost begs, “No, Please don't stop… keep doing That…” Relieved that I am not doing it wrong, I go back to doing what I was just doing. As I run my tongue around his smooth head and down the shaft as far as I can reach my tongue, I moan around the cock, as I recover my overwhelming feeling of exhilaration at the feel of this cock on my lips, and on my tongue, and on the fleshy insides of my cheeks. I slide all of them over and around this cock, as I rediscover the feeling of his big balls in my hand. Overcome by the sensations of this cock in my mouth, I can't stop my other hand from sliding under my skirt and into my thong. Um, I am so fucking wet. I push two fingers into my wet pussy. My pussy feels so wet and squishy and warm around my fingers. I wonder if this is what his cock feels when it is in my mouth. I start to imagine that my fingers and his cock are the same. I start to push my mouth on his cock more and more, as I push my fingers deeper and deeper inside myself. I move up and down on his cock at the same speed as I am pushing my fingers into me. When I begin to gag myself by forcing his cock into my mouth so fast and so deep, I realize how fast and desperately I am finger fucking myself. It is at that exact moment that I push myself over the edge and cum Streaming around his cock. I didn't realize how close he was, until at that same time, I feel his cock swell even larger and twitch in my mouth as I feel hot surges hitting the back of my throat. Because I am in the middle of an uncontrolled scream,  “I feel his cum continue to shoot directly down my throat. I can actually feel it coating my throat.”  Then I start coughing uncontrollably, because, as I was riding my overpowering orgasm, I was also desperately gasping for breath. I hope I didn't breathe his cum into my lungs. For a fleeting moment, I wonder if it is possible to drown from cum in my lungs? As I get control of my breathing, I realize that I am not going to drown. I am twice as relieved, knowing that my mother will not have to recover my body from the university, after learning that I died by drowning in cum, as I sucked the cock of a guy I just met. Jeff… or Jake… or is it Jim? I am pretty sure it is a “J” name. I hope it is the overpowering orgasm I just had that is keeping my brain from recalling his name, and not the fact that I am a total slut who sucks the cock of a guy she doesn't know the name of. As I contemplate how much of a slut I really am, I start to think,  "Well, if I am going to condemn myself for being a slut, I might as well go all the way.“  In that moment, I decide that I am getting fucked for the first time. Well, that is if this guy… J.. something, can get his cock hard again. Realizing the decision is in my hands… literally… I am holding his softening cock in my hand… I start to slowly squeeze and stroke it. Figuring that I should get J… J… J-dog involved in the decision, I say to him,  "Um, I loved how your cock felt in my mouth… I would love even more to feel what he is like in my pussy… You want to feel your big, thick cock deep inside me?” “Fuck Yeah,” he enthusiastically agrees. Then in a more subdued way he adds, “But you got to give me a minute… You know… to get ready…” I do in fact know what he means. I can feel his cock in my hand, clearly not ready to do the pushing that I so desperately need right now. It is not an unpleasant feeling though. I actually really enjoy the soft, flexible feeling of his cock in my hand. It is not fully soft, but just hard enough to weigh heavily in my hand. I squeeze it and I love the way it compresses. It feels like a very warm stress toy. I realize how much I would love to have a cock in this exact state, when I am stressed in class or doing an assignment in my dorm. I shake it and flop it around in my hand and love the way it moves. “I am suddenly jealous, that guys get to have these things with them all the time. Then I wonder if they hold them and squeeze them when they need stress relief?” He taps me on the head and rips me from the labyrinth of my twisted thoughts. It is then that I realize that his cock is Very much up for the task at hand… again, my hand… “Don't you think you should take off your clothes? Or do you just want me to bend you over and flip up your skirt?” he asks me. “Oh My,” I think to myself, as I suddenly get the image in my head of him forcing me over the arm of the couch and taking me from behind like an animal. Battling with myself in my mind, I think I should lead him to think I am a lady and do this in a dignified manner. However, I realize that I fucking need this Bad and I need it Now. Standing up, I reach under my skirt and almost tear my thong as I pull it off my hips and down my legs. Then I turn toward the arm of the couch and lean over it, as I spread my legs. As I turn to look back at him, the desperate look on my face, is all the answer he needs. I keep looking back as he aims his cock toward my wet, waiting, and Very willing pussy. He doesn't even use his hands as he pushes it against my swollen and Very sensitive pussy lips. He moves back and forth slightly, making his cock slide along my wet groove. Oh my God, the feeling of the big smooth head is even more amazing against the lips of my pussy, than it was against the lips of my mouth. I squeeze my pussy, trying to kiss it… to suck it into me… I feel his cock start to push my lips open. I realize that he is not moving, it is me, who is moving back, desperately trying to fuck myself onto his cock. I feel him slightly pull back with each of my thrust back. I look up to see him grinning at the desperate look on my face. I finally beg out loud,  "Please… put it in… Please… fuck me… Please… Fuck me Now…“ Without a word he pushes his cock right into me. I gasp out loud as I literally feel like all of the air is pushed out of my lungs. I am not sure how deep he went with that first thrust, but I feel like I am impaled on the damn thing. I feel so full that I am afraid I will tear in half, if he pushes any deeper. Surprisingly, it is not painful though. Luckily for both of us, I broke my hymen in a tragic accidental fall on a dildo… Okay, I was masturbating. I said my mother made me feel guilty about it. I never said that I didn't do it. And thank God that I did. This may be the first real cock inside me, but it is Definitely not the first time I have had cock like objects inside me. And my God, the number of cock like objects I have inside me… Well, let's just say I have been training Very hard for this moment. Yet, for all of the training I have done, None of it compares to what this feels like for real. Fuck, the heat and hard flexibility of this cock inside me… It is almost indescribable. I feel like he is entering my soul. I feel like his cock is in control of my body and mind. I want this… I want this a Lot. Then, just when I am deciding that this feeling is better than anything I can imagine, he starts to move slowly out and then back in… and it gets better… Much better. I feel like he is turning me inside out, as he slowly pulls his cock out of me. Then he holds it with just the head inside me, keeping me spread so wide. I get desperate for more. Why the Fuck is he holding it there? I look back pleadingly. I see him smile at me with a devilish grin and then, Slam, he pushes all the way back inside me. Three things happen at the same time.  I feel him pound deep inside me. His big heavy balls Slap against my WAY oversensitive clit. I actually see stars and lose control of my legs as I cum so hard that I am afraid I popped a blood vessel in my head.  I am not sure if I lose consciousness, but as I ride the most amazing orgasm of my life, I feel like I am flopping around like my whole body is made of jelly, as he continues to hammer away in and out of me. When I feel fluids gushing out of my pussy, I am mortified, thinking that I must have lost control of myself and peed all over his cock, balls and thighs. He suddenly stops fucking, with his cock half inside me. I am afraid that he is grossed out by my loss of control. I am sure that I will be humiliated when everyone at the university hears about "Annie the incontinent slut”. Then he surprises me by saying,  “Fuck Yeah… You're a squirter. I never fucked a squirter before. That was fucking amazing.”  “That shit splashed out of you so hard, I felt like someone turned a hose on me.” With my face so red that I am sure it is glowing, I ask him, “So you are not grossed out by That?” “Fuck No,” he answers and then starts pushing his cock back in and out of me. I am embarrassed by the loud squishing and squelching sounds his cock is making as he fucks in and out of me. Then I feel a weird new feeling. It is like there is a surge of water into me with each thrust in, and a much stronger suction with each pull out. As I realize that I am building to another orgasm, he warns me, “I got to tell you, after I cum once, I can keep going for a Very long time after. The thoughts of this amazing cock fucking me for a Very long time, sends waves of exhilaration through me and I Clench around his cock, telling him,  "Give me All you got…  Fuck me hard and long…  fuck me until I can't walk.” My spontaneous haiku has the desired effect, and he Slams into me so hard that his hips Slap on my ass and it stings like he spanked me with his hand. I feel him grab my hips with both hands. He grabs so hard that I can feel his fingers dig into the soft flesh in the hollows of my hip bones. Then just as quickly he releases them, and I feel his hands reach up to unbutton my blouse. Feeling him fumbling with them, I reach up and take over. I quickly have the buttons undone and I wildly flap my arms trying to throw the blouse off of me. As my blouse finally flies off my wildly flailing arm, I feel his hands grab my bra clasp and almost violently pull it open. Leaning forward like I am, the bra Snaps open and falls down my arms. My 36 double D tits that were straining hard against my bra, are now free and wildly flapping their wings trying to fly away. Well, more flopping than flapping. With each of his hard thrusts into me, I feel my heavy tits bounce forward and Slap against my neck and shoulders. Then I feel them recoil and Slap back against my rib cage and under my arms. Yes, in case you missed it, they are all natural and definitely out of my ability to control them. He is relentlessly fucking me, and I can already feel my heavy tits start to ache from their wild flopping and bouncing. I am about to reach up to catch them with my hand and arm, to try to stop the bouncing, when I feel him reach around and cup each of my tits in his hands. I feel him hold them just enough, so that that they jiggle and bounce in his hands. The rubbing of my nipples on his palms is driving me fucking insane. He Squeezes my tits and weighs them appreciatively, as he tells me, “You've got fucking amazing tits. I love these big fucking tits.” Then for emphasis, he takes my nipples between his fingers and thumbs, and pulls, and rolls, and Pinches them, which pushes me over a cliff I wasn't even sure I was standing next to. “Fuck,” I Scream out loud, as once again I feel my fluids gush out of me and my arms give out, as I fall on my face, having another overwhelming orgasm. As my pussy squeezes and spasms around his cock inside me, I keep getting electric shocks of overstimulation, which makes my orgasm continue like a series of explosions that won't end. All I can think about is the overpowering pleasure and the feeling of that cock filling me and touching me so completely. I have never done drugs, but I imagine this feeling of euphoria must be what drug addicts feel. I know right then and there that I will need to feel this all the time, from now on. I am suddenly pulled from my post orgasm bliss, by a new sensation. As he continues to slowly push in and out of my pussy, he starts to lightly tease my sensitive butt hole with his thumb. It feels like he is thrumming my sensitive ring with his thumb, like it is a guitar string or something. There is something very naughty and very exciting about it. It is also sending electric shocks of excitement through my entire body with each thrum of his thumb. Each thrum seems to short circuit my brain and it also seems to excite every nerve inside my already overstimulated pussy. I feel my excitement being driven higher and higher. I feel like it will become too much for my body and mind to handle, and I will fucking explode. “Fuck,” I Scream out, as he changes from a thrumming of my butt hole to a thumping of his thumb on it. Oh my God… I have Never felt anything like this, and it is making my entire body twitch and spasm with each thump. He is doing it at a faster pace now and I can almost feel my pulse beating faster to match his thumping pace. I suddenly realize that I am loudly moaning in a rhythmic pattern, “Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,” over and over, with each thump of his thumb on my butt hole. I also realize that I am pushing back onto his cock desperately to meet his cock pushing into me, at the same pace. I also feel myself pushing back onto that fucking thumb, that is driving me insane. Feeling how positively my body is reacting to his teasing, on the next thump, he doesn't stop. He pushes his thumb right past my tight ring. I loudly Gasp, “Oh,” as I feel his thumb Pop past my tight butt hole. I notice immediately how wet and slippery his thumb is, from all of the fluids I recently squirted all over him. I also notice that his thumb doesn't feel anything like I thought it would. I had thought about anal sex before, but always dismissed the idea because I imagined that it would hurt quite badly. But this… this feels Very different than I feared it would. As I start to squeeze my butt around his thumb, sort of getting a better feel of my sudden intruder, I realize that he is slowly pushing and pulling it in and out of me, in time to his cock's motion in my pussy. I realize that I Really like this double stimulation. I start to grind back again, pushing his cock and thumb into me harder and faster. I suddenly feel a desperate need for more. I want him fucking me deep and hard in both of my holes. An image enters my brain of getting fucked like this by two different men… two cocks… one in my pussy and one in my butt… oh my God… do I really want to feel a cock in my butt??? His cock is so much bigger than his thumb, but that damn thumb feels so fucking good right now… These are all the random, wild thoughts racing through my head as I come to the conclusion,  “Hell Yes, I want to know what his cock will feel like in my butt.” Before I can chicken out, I turn my head back and meekly tell him,  "You can put it in my… butt… You know… fuck my butt… if you want…“ "Oh God Yes,” he almost shouts, as I feel him quickly pull his cock from my pussy. I feel empty, physically and emotionally, as that cock is suddenly ripped away from me. However, that emptiness is just as quickly filled when I feel him push that cock right into my butt. Fortunately for me, he didn't jam it in as deep and as fast as he did when he first entered my pussy. However, it was hard and deep enough to make me feel like I am trying to suck all the oxygen out of the air as I Gasp from the sudden intrusion. As my whole body Clenches in response to the large visitor in my butt, I feel like someone is touching me with live wires. Shock after shock races through my body, and my mind is short circuited as it tries to decide on the right response to having a cock suddenly shoved into my virgin butt hole. Finally, my brain settles on pleasure, and I realize that my whole-body clench is relaxing, and I am releasing my butt hole's death grip on his cock. He feels me relax and starts to slowly push more of his cock into me. This makes my brain reconsider its decision and my body puts on the breaks again, resuming my butt's death grip on his cock. He stops again, which causes my brain and body to give in again. After a seemingly endless series of stops and starts, I feel his hips press against my round fleshy butt, and I realize that he is fully inside me. And when I say fully, I mean Full. I never imagined such a full feeling. I feel like he is touching places that I didn't even know I had inside me. In fact, I think he is pushing up against my pancreas. Where the heck is the pancreas anyway? It's got to be up in there somewhere, right? All thoughts of my pancreas fly out of my head as I feel him slowly draw his cock out of me. I feel like he is pulling my soul out of me through my butt. I almost laugh as I think about the movie “Riddick”, and the scenes where the Necromancer guy is pulling a person's soul out of them. Except in my case, he is doing it from my butt hole. My urge to laugh is suddenly replaced by an overwhelming pleasure as he draws his cock along something VERY sensitive inside me. I moan out loud as I feel something so fantastic, it should have its own emoji. Then he pushes back in, causing me to start speaking in a language I have never heard before. I think if I could translate the words into English, they would come out as,  "Oh my god that feels amazing. Fuck me Harder with that amazing cock of yours. Pound me until my guts spill out of my mouth.“  Instead, to my ears the words sound like,  "Arga ah ah Gah; gahd…” Lucky for me, that he is fluent in “Cock Hungry Whore” or he is able to read my mind, because he starts to hammer into me fast and hard. This apparently rattles my brain enough that I can speak English again and I cry out,  "God! Yes! More! Please!“ Like a true gentleman, he gives me exactly what I asked for. I have to brace my hands to keep from being driven face first into the couch again. I feel my tits flopping wildly again. They even Slap me in the face, as I look down and back, to see if I can see his cock pushing into me. That will teach me to get in the way of those things when they are bouncing out of control. The sudden realization that his heavy balls are Slapping against my sensitive pussy with each thrust, takes my mind off my swinging tits, and drives me headlong toward the cliff of another powerful orgasm. As he bottoms out and Slap against my pussy one more time, I cum so hard that I let out a scream so high pitched that only dogs can hear it. At that same time, I feel his cock twitch inside me and his hands Clamp around my hips, as he shoots surge after surge after surge of cum Deep inside me. Then he collapses on top of my exhausted body. He is much larger than me and rather muscular. I feel like he will crush me. Again, my mind drifts to my mother and what she will think about her daughter, being crushed to death, with the man's cock still hard in her ass.  "Get out of my head Mom… Let me enjoy the feeling of this cock slowly softening in my butt,” I shout in my mind. As I push all thoughts of my mother out of my head, I begin to really enjoy the feeling of this cock inside my butt. It is still so hot. My God, it is like it is on fire, warming me from the inside. And as it softens, I feel it slowly pulling from me. I feel my butt clenching, trying to hold this cock inside me. I don't want it to go. I want to keep feeling this cock inside me. I am almost afraid of how empty I will feel when he is finally out of me. Then Pop, his cock finally pulls from my clenching butt hole. As I feared, I feel empty and long for the cock that was just in my butt. “Justin… That's his name,” I realize. Then I laugh at the way my brain finally came up with that, as I thought about his cock “just in” my butt. Hearing me laughing unexpectedly, he asks me, “What… What's so funny?” Unable to control my laughter, I try to explain,  "Justin… your name… and you were just in my butt… and just in my pussy… and just in my mouth…“  At that point I begin laughing so hard that I can't say any more. He barks out a laugh and says,  "You idiot… my name is Jason."  Then he continues laughing as he sees the surprised look on my face. If I could lift my arm, I would slap my palm against my head. Instead, I begin laughing hysterically again. We are now both laughing so hard that I feel both of our bodies shaking uncontrollably. Thank God he finally rolls off of me though, or I would have literally died laughing. Well, at least I would go out having been so thoroughly fucked. Although I would die happy, I sure as Hell would not be happy dying. As I lay here in the afterglow of pleasure I could never have imagined before, all I can think about is,  "When can I do this again? When can I feel THIS again?”  This may have been my first experience with a real cock, but I know for sure that it will Definitely not be my last. I want more… so much more. I want to know if all cocks feel like That or if it is just Justin… Jason… whoever… that can make me feel THIS.  Even now I am thinking about that God of a man in my Chemistry class, and whether a guy that big will have a bigger cock than Jason. Then there is that guy with the dark chocolate skin who lives on the floor above mine in the dorm… Is it true what they say? I am so going to find out. I suddenly realize that there are a great many cocks in the world for me to sample… and I want to sample as many as I can… I laugh at myself and how just a few hours ago, I was worrying myself to death over whether I was finally going to give up my virginity tonight. After years of being told how immoral sex outside of marriage is, and how sex for other than procreation is a sin,  I was so wrought with guilt for wanting to experience it. Now, I can't imagine going without this ever again. Fuck procreation and fuck my mother. I fucking Love the way THIS feels, and there is no fucking way I am abstaining from this ever again.  In fact, I can't wait to get my next cock in my hands… in my mouth… in All of me. I have so much lost time to make up for and I can't wait to start… By spr1987 for Literotica  Rejects Her Shame Annie finally rejects her abstinent life and finds how much joy a cock can bring her. By spr1987 for Literotica. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. “Oh my God… it feels so hot in my hand… and how can it be this hard and this soft feeling at the same time?”  These are the thoughts racing through my mind, as I feel a real live cock in my hands for the first time. I know what you are thinking, “You are 19 years old Annie, and you are pretty hot looking… so how can this be the first time you have had a cock in your hands?” First, thank you for saying I'm hot. As a petite red head with a larger than normal pair of tits, I think I'm pretty hot also, but it is always nice to hear it. Second, I was raised in a very religious home, and sex was absolutely forbidden. In fact, my mother even made a habit of checking my panties and bedsheets to make sure that I wasn't masturbating. Yes, I realize now how twisted that sounds. But it was how I was raised, to think that self-pleasure and sex were mortal sins. Hell, even now I feel guilty every time I touch myself. Not to mention that right now, I am feeling pretty wrong emotionally, about this cock in my hands. Although I am feeling the guilt from years of conditioning, I can't help feeling a rush of excitement all through my body, as I squeeze and rub this thick cock. I am assuming it is thick. I have no basis for this judgement because, as I said several times already, this is my first cock. All I know is that I can't get my small hand around it and when I stack both of my hands, there is still all of the big swollen head left sticking out. My God that head looks big. I catch myself thinking that it looks like the helmet of one of those stormtrooper guys from Star Wars. I have to swallow the laugh that is threatening to burst out of me. I trace my fingers around that big helmet, and I am surprised at how smooth the skin is. I trace my finger along the groove in the front and the whole cock Jumps in my hands. I look up at the guy's face, wondering if I did something wrong or hurt him or something. I see that he has his eyes squeezed shut tightly and his mouth is open in an audible moan. I make a mental note that this is a good thing. At this same time, I feel and see liquid leak out of the cock's slit. I touch it and I like how slick it feels on my fingers. I rub it between my thumb and finger and relish the slick feeling. Then I run my slick fingers around the smooth cock head. I love how slippery it feels on the smooth skin of the head. I trace my slick fingers all around the edges of the cock's helmet.  “It is like I am trying to memorize every detail of my fascinating new plaything.” I run my other hand down to the bottom of his shaft and discover his balls. I cup them and feel them move around in their soft wrinkled sack. I roll them around in my fingers, enjoying how they move so fluidly. I sort of ring my fingers around behind them and pull them down, enjoying how the sack stretches tight and I can feel the balls hard in my hand. I squeeze, just to see what this will feel like. The guy almost screams out, “Oh my God, Yes,” when I do that. I make another mental note, that this is a good thing. Then I wonder, what will happen if I squeeze his balls at the same time as I rub my finger along his tender groove? “Fuck yes.” he screams out, as I try this experiment. Well, that confirms my thesis, I smile to myself and continue to gently pulse his big full balls in one hand, while teasing his sensitive head with my other. I think to myself, I am so glad that he likes this because I really love how this feels for me when I am doing it. I start to wonder,  "How the Hell, have I never heard about how amazing cocks and balls feel?“  I have talked with quite a few other girls about their sexual experiences, and I can't remember a single one telling me how amazing cocks felt in their hands.  "I fucking Love this,”  I think to myself as I really concentrate on the feeling of this cock and those full balls in my hands. Then the thought enters my head, “If it feels this good in my hands, how will it feel in my mouth?” I immediately hear my mother's voice in my head chastising me, “You should be ashamed of yourself Annabeth, for even thinking such a thing.” Then I tell the guilt wielding mother in my head, “Shut the fuck up Mother… and it is Annie… Nobody calls me Annabeth anymore.” Then I show her that she is no longer the boss of me, as I take this big cock into my mouth. Well, to be honest, I take the head and maybe another inch or so in my mouth. “My God, this thing is big. Are they all This big?” I wonder to myself as I feel that swollen thick head push into the soft spot at the roof of my mouth. I pull my mouth off of it enough, so that I can suck my lips around the helmet. I run my tongue around the smooth head, as I suck my cheeks around it. “Oh my God, this feels so exciting and so naughty,” I think to myself as I feel like I will pee myself from the overwhelming exhilaration. I am suddenly yanked from my moment of bliss, when I feel the guy's hands grab my head almost violently. Again, thinking that I hurt him, I try to pull my mouth off of his cock. He latches on even harder and almost begs, “No, Please don't stop… keep doing That…” Relieved that I am not doing it wrong, I go back to doing what I was just doing. As I run my tongue around his smooth head and down the shaft as far as I can reach my tongue, I moan around the cock, as I recover my overwhelming feeling of exhilaration at the feel of this cock on my lips, and on my tongue, and on the fleshy insides of my cheeks. I slide all of them over and around this cock, as I rediscover the feeling of his big balls in my hand. Overcome by the sensations of this cock in my mouth, I can't stop my other hand from sliding under my skirt and into my thong. Um, I am so fucking wet. I push two fingers into my wet pussy. My pussy feels so wet and squishy and warm around my fingers. I wonder if this is what his cock feels when it is in my mouth. I start to imagine that my fingers and his cock are the same. I start to push my mouth on his cock more and more, as I push my fingers deeper and deeper inside myself. I move up and down on his cock at the same speed as I am pushing my fingers into me. When I begin to gag myself by forcing his cock into my mouth so fast and so deep, I realize how fast and desperately I am finger fucking myself. It is at that exact moment that I push myself over the edge and cum Streaming around his cock. I didn't realize how close he was, until at that same time, I feel his cock swell even larger and twitch in my mouth as I feel hot surges hitting the back of my throat. Because I am in the middle of an uncontrolled scream,  “I feel his cum continue to shoot directly down my throat. I can actually feel it coating my throat.”  Then I start coughing uncontrollably, because, as I was riding my overpowering orgasm, I was also desperately gasping for breath. I hope I didn't breathe his cum into my lungs. For a fleeting moment, I wonder if it is possible to drown from cum in my lungs? As I get control of my breathing, I realize that I am not going to drown. I am twice as relieved, knowing that my mother will not have to recover my body from the university, after learning that I died by drowning in cum, as I sucked the cock of a guy I just met. Jeff… or Jake… or is it Jim? I am pretty sure it is a “J” name. I hope it is the overpowering orgasm I just had that is keeping my brain from recalling his name, and not the fact that I am a total slut who sucks the cock of a guy she doesn't know the name of. As I contemplate how much of a slut I really am, I start to think,  "Well, if I am going to condemn myself for being a slut, I might as well go all the way.“  In that moment, I decide that I am getting fucked for the first time. Well, that is if this guy… J.. something, can get his cock hard again. Realizing the decision is in my hands… literally… I am holding his softening cock in my hand… I start to slowly squeeze and stroke it. Figuring that I should get J… J… J-dog involved in the decision, I say to him,  "Um, I loved how your cock felt in my mouth… I would love even more to feel what he is like in my pussy… You want to feel your big, thick cock deep inside me?” “Fuck Yeah,” he enthusiastically agrees. Then in a more subdued way he adds, “But you got to give me a minute… You know… to get ready…” I do in fact know what he means. I can feel his cock in my hand, clearly not ready to do the pushing that I so desperately need right now. It is not an unpleasant feeling though. I actually really enjoy the soft, flexible feeling of his cock in my hand. It is not fully soft, but just hard enough to weigh heavily in my hand. I squeeze it and I love the way it compresses. It feels like a very warm stress toy. I realize how much I would love to have a cock in this exact state, when I am stressed in class or doing an assignment in my dorm. I shake it and flop it around in my hand and love the way it moves. “I am suddenly jealous, that guys get to have these things with them all the time. Then I wonder if they hold them and squeeze them when they need stress relief?” He taps me on the head and rips me from the labyrinth of my twisted thoughts. It is then that I realize that his cock is Very much up for the task at hand… again, my hand… “Don't you think you should take off your clothes? Or do you just want me to bend you over and flip up your skirt?” he asks me. “Oh My,” I think to myself, as I suddenly get the image in my head of him forcing me over the arm of the couch and taking me from behind like an animal. Battling with myself in my mind, I think I should lead him to think I am a lady and do this in a dignified manner. However, I realize that I fucking need this Bad and I need it Now. Standing up, I reach under my skirt and almost tear my thong as I pull it off my hips and down my legs. Then I turn toward the arm of the couch and lean over it, as I spread my legs. As I turn to look back at him, the desperate look on my face, is all the answer he needs. I keep looking back as he aims his cock toward my wet, waiting, and Very willing pussy. He doesn't even use his hands as he pushes it against my swollen and Very sensitive pussy lips. He moves back and forth slightly, making his cock slide along my wet groove. Oh my God, the feeling of the big smooth head is even more amazing against the lips of my pussy, than it was against the lips of my mouth. I squeeze my pussy, trying to kiss it… to suck it into me… I feel his cock start to push my lips open. I realize that he is not moving, it is me, who is moving back, desperately trying to fuck myself onto his cock. I feel him slightly pull back with each of my thrust back. I look up to see him grinning at the desperate look on my face. I finally beg out loud,  "Please… put it in… Please… fuck me… Please… Fuck me Now…“ Without a word he pushes his cock right into me. I gasp out loud as I literally feel like all of the air is pushed out of my lungs. I am not sure how deep he went with that first thrust, but I feel like I am impaled on the damn thing. I feel so full that I am afraid I will tear in half, if he pushes any deeper. Surprisingly, it is not painful though. Luckily for both of us, I broke my hymen in a tragic accidental fall on a dildo… Okay, I was masturbating. I said my mother made me feel guilty about it. I never said that I didn't do it. And thank God that I did. This may be the first real cock inside me, but it is Definitely not the first time I have had cock like objects inside me. And my God, the number of cock like objects I have inside me… Well, let's just say I have been training Very hard for this moment. Yet, for all of the training I have done, None of it compares to what this feels like for real. Fuck, the heat and hard flexibility of this cock inside me… It is almost indescribable. I feel like he is entering my soul. I feel like his cock is in control of my body and mind. I want this… I want this a Lot. Then, just when I am deciding that this feeling is better than anything I can imagine, he starts to move slowly out and then back in… and it gets better… Much better. I feel like he is turning me inside out, as he slowly pulls his cock out of me. Then he holds it with just the head inside me, keeping me spread so wide. I get desperate for more. Why the Fuck is he holding it there? I look back pleadingly. I see him smile at me with a devilish grin and then, Slam, he pushes all the way back inside me. Three things happen at the same time.  I feel him pound deep inside me. His big heavy balls Slap against my WAY oversensitive clit. I actually see stars and lose control of my legs as I cum so hard that I am afraid I popped a blood vessel in my head.  I am not sure if I lose consciousness, but as I ride the most amazing orgasm of my life, I feel like I am flopping around like my whole body is made of jelly, as he continues to hammer away in and out of me. When I feel fluids gushing out of my pussy, I am mortified, thinking that I must have lost control of myself and peed all over his cock, balls and thighs. He suddenly stops fucking, with his cock half inside me. I am afraid that he is grossed out by my loss of control. I am sure that I will be humiliated when everyone at the university hears about "Annie the incontinent slut”. Then he surprises me by saying,  “Fuck Yeah… You're a squirter. I never fucked a squirter before. That was fucking amazing.”  “That shit splashed out of you so hard, I felt like someone turned a hose on me.” With my face so red that I am sure it is glowing, I ask him, “So you are not grossed out by That?” “Fuck No,” he answers and then starts pushing his cock back in and out of me. I am embarrassed by the loud squishing and squelching sounds his cock is making as he fucks in and out of me. Then I feel a weird new feeling. It is like there is a surge of water into me with each thrust in, and a much stronger suction with each pull out. As I realize that I am building to another orgasm, he warns me, “I got to tell you, after I cum once, I can keep going for a Very long time after. The thoughts of this amazing cock fucking me for a Very long time, sends waves of exhilaration through me and I Clench around his cock, telling him,  "Give me All you got…  Fuck me hard and long…  fuck me until I can't walk.” My spontaneous haiku has the desired effect, and he Slams into me so hard that his hips Slap on my ass and it stings like he spanked me with his hand. I feel him grab my hips with both hands. He grabs so hard that I can feel his fingers dig into the soft flesh in the hollows of my hip bones. Then just as quickly he releases them, and I feel his hands reach up to unbutton my blouse. Feeling him fumbling with them, I reach up and take over. I quickly have the buttons undone and I wildly flap my arms trying to throw the blouse off of me. As my blouse finally flies off my wildly flailing arm, I feel his hands grab my bra clasp and almost violently pull it open. Leaning forward like I am, the bra Snaps open and falls down my arms. My 36 double D tits that were straining hard against my bra, are now free and wildly flapping their wings trying to fly away. Well, more flopping than flapping. With each of his hard thrusts into me, I feel my heavy tits bounce forward and Slap against my neck and shoulders. Then I feel them recoil and Slap back against my rib cage and under my arms. Yes, in case you missed it, they are all natural and definitely out of my ability to control them. He is relentlessly fucking me, and I can already feel my heavy tits start to ache from their wild flopping and bouncing. I am about to reach up to catch them with my hand and arm, to try to stop the bouncing, when I feel him reach around and cup each of my tits in his hands. I feel him hold them just enough, so that that they jiggle and bounce in his hands. The rubbing of my nipples on his palms is driving me fucking insane. He Squeezes my tits and weighs them appreciatively, as he tells me, “You've got fucking amazing tits. I love these big fucking tits.” Then for emphasis, he takes my nipples between his fingers and thumbs, and pulls, and rolls, and Pinches them, which pushes me over a cliff I wasn't even sure I was standing next to. “Fuck,” I Scream out loud, as once again I feel my fluids gush out of me and my arms give out, as I fall on my face, having another overwhelming orgasm. As my pussy squeezes and spasms around his cock inside me, I keep getting electric shocks of overstimulation, which makes my orgasm continue like a series of explosions that won't end. All I can think about is the overpowering pleasure and the feeling of that cock filling me and touching me so completely. I have never done drugs, but I imagine this feeling of euphoria must be what drug addicts feel. I know right then and there that I will need to feel this all the time, from now on. I am suddenly pulled from my post orgasm bliss, by a new sensation. As he continues to slowly push in and out of my pussy, he starts to lightly tease my sensitive butt hole with his thumb. It feels like he is thrumming my sensitive ring with his thumb, like it is a guitar string or something. There is something very naughty and very exciting about it. It is also sending electric shocks of excitement through my entire body with each thrum of his thumb. Each thrum seems to short circuit my brain and it also seems to excite every nerve inside my already overstimulated pussy. I feel my excitement being driven higher and higher. I feel like it will become too much for my body and mind to handle, and I will fucking explode. “Fuck,” I Scream out, as he changes from a thrumming of my butt hole to a thumping of his thumb on it. Oh my God… I have Never felt anything like this, and it is making my entire body twitch and spasm with each thump. He is doing it at a faster pace now and I can almost feel my pulse beating faster to match his thumping pace. I suddenly realize that I am loudly moaning in a rhythmic pattern, “Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,” over and over, with each thump of his thumb on my butt hole. I also realize that I am pushing back onto his cock desperately to meet his cock pushing into me, at the same pace. I also feel myself pushing back onto that fucking thumb, that is driving me insane. Feeling how positively my body is reacting to his teasing, on the next thump, he doesn't stop. He pushes his thumb right past my tight ring. I loudly Gasp, “Oh,” as I feel his thumb Pop past my tight butt hole. I notice immediately how wet and slippery his thumb is, from all of the fluids I recently squirted all over him. I also notice that his thumb doesn't feel anything like I thought it would. I had thought about anal sex before, but always dismissed the idea because I imagined that it would hurt quite badly. But this… this feels Very different than I feared it would. As I start to squeeze my butt around his thumb, sort of getting a better feel of my sudden intruder, I realize that he is slowly pushing and pulling it in and out of me, in time to his cock's motion in my pussy. I realize that I Really like this double stimulation. I start to grind back again, pushing his cock and thumb into me harder and faster. I suddenly feel a desperate need for more. I want him fucking me deep and hard in both of my holes. An image enters my brain of getting fucked like this by two different men… two cocks… one in my pussy and one in my butt… oh my God… do I really want to feel a cock in my butt??? His cock is so much bigger than his thumb, but that damn thumb feels so fucking good right now… These are all the random, wild thoughts racing through my head as I come to the conclusion,  “Hell Yes, I want to know what his cock will feel like in my butt.” Before I can chicken out, I turn my head back and meekly tell him,  "You can put it in my… butt… You know… fuck my butt… if you want…“ "Oh God Yes,” he almost shouts, as I feel him quickly pull his cock from my pussy. I feel empty, physically and emotionally, as that cock is suddenly ripped away from me. However, that emptiness is just as quickly filled when I feel him push that cock right into my butt. Fortunately for me, he didn't jam it in as deep and as fast as he did when he first entered my pussy. However, it was hard and deep enough to make me feel like I am trying to suck all the oxygen out of the air as I Gasp from the sudden intrusion. As my whole body Clenches in response to the large visitor in my butt, I feel like someone is touching me with live wires. Shock after shock races through my body, and my mind is short circuited as it tries to decide on the right response to having a cock suddenly shoved into my virgin butt hole. Finally, my brain settles on pleasure, and I realize that my whole-body clench is relaxing, and I am releasing my butt hole's death grip on his cock. He feels me relax and starts to slowly push more of his cock into me. This makes my brain reconsider its decision and my body puts on the breaks again, resuming my butt's death grip on his cock. He stops again, which causes my brain and body to give in again. After a seemingly endless series of stops and starts, I feel his hips press against my round fleshy butt, and I realize that he is fully inside me. And when I say fully, I mean Full. I never imagined such a full feeling. I feel like he is touching places that I didn't even know I had inside me. In fact, I think he is pushing up against my pancreas. Where the heck is the pancreas anyway? It's got to be up in there somewhere, right? All thoughts of my pancreas fly out of my head as I feel him slowly draw his cock out of me. I feel like he is pulling my soul out of me through my butt. I almost laugh as I think about the movie “Riddick”, and the scenes where the Necromancer guy is pulling a person's soul out of them. Except in my case, he is doing it from my butt hole. My urge to laugh is suddenly replaced by an overwhelming pleasure as he draws his cock along something VERY sensitive inside me. I moan out loud as I feel something so fantastic, it should have its own emoji. Then he pushes back in, causing me to start speaking in a language I have never heard before. I think if I could translate the words into English, they would come out as,  "Oh my god that feels amazing. Fuck me Harder with that amazing cock of yours. Pound me until my guts spill out of my mouth.“  Instead, to my ears the words sound like,  "Arga ah ah Gah; gahd…” Lucky for me, that he is fluent in “Cock Hungry Whore” or he is able to read my mind, because he starts to hammer into me fast and hard. This apparently rattles my brain enough that I can speak English again and I cry out,  "God! Yes! More! Please!“ Like a true gentleman, he gives me exactly what I asked for. I have to brace my hands to keep from being driven face first into the couch again. I feel my tits flopping wildly again. They even Slap me in the face, as I look down and back, to see if I can see his cock pushing into me. That will teach me to get in the way of those things when they are bouncing out of control. The sudden realization that his heavy balls are Slapping against my sensitive pussy with each thrust, takes my mind off my swinging tits, and drives me headlong toward the cliff of another powerful orgasm. As he bottoms out and Slap against my pussy one more time, I cum so hard that I let out a scream so high pitched that only dogs can hear it. At that same time, I feel his cock twitch inside me and his hands Clamp around my hips, as he shoots surge after surge after surge of cum Deep inside me. Then he collapses on top of my exhausted body. He is much larger than me and rather muscular. I feel like he will crush me. Again, my mind drifts to my mother and what she will think about her daughter, being crushed to death, with the man's cock still hard in her ass.  "Get out of my head Mom… Let me enjoy the feeling of this cock slowly softening in my butt,” I shout in my mind. As I push all thoughts of my mother out of my head, I begin to really enjoy the feeling of this cock inside my butt. It is still so hot. My God, it is like it is on fire, warming me from the inside. And as it softens, I feel it slowly pulling from me. I feel my butt clenching, trying to hold this cock inside me. I don't want it to go. I want to keep feeling this cock inside me. I am almost afraid of how empty I will feel when he is finally out of me. Then Pop, his cock finally pulls from my clenching butt hole. As I feared, I feel empty and long for the cock that was just in my butt. “Justin… That's his name,” I realize. Then I laugh at the way my brain finally came up with that, as I thought about his cock “just in” my butt. Hearing me laughing unexpectedly, he asks me, “What… What's so funny?” Unable to control my laughter, I try to explain,  "Justin… your name… and you were just in my butt… and just in my pussy… and just in my mouth…“  At that point I begin laughing so hard that I can't say any more. He barks out a laugh and says,  "You idiot… my name is Jason."  Then he continues laughing as he sees the surprised look on my face. If I could lift my arm, I would slap my palm against my head. Instead, I begin laughing hysterically again. We are now both laughing so hard that I feel both of our bodies shaking uncontrollably. Thank God he finally rolls off of me though, or I would have literally died laughing. Well, at least I would go out having been so thoroughly fucked. Although I would die happy, I sure as Hell would not be happy dying. As I lay here in the afterglow of pleasure I could never have imagined before, all I can think about is,  "When can I do this again? When can I feel THIS again?”  This may have been my first experience with a real cock, but I know for sure that it will Definitely not be my last. I want more… so much more. I want to know if all cocks feel like That or if it is just Justin… Jason… whoever… that can make me feel THIS.  Even now I am thinking about that God of a man in my Chemistry class, and whether a guy that big will have a bigger cock than Jason. Then there is that guy with the dark chocolate skin who lives on the floor above mine in the dorm… Is it true what they say? I am so going to find out. I suddenly realize that there are a great many cocks in the world for me to sample… and I want to sample as many as I can… I laugh at myself and how just a few hours ago, I was worrying myself to death over whether I was finally going to give up my virginity tonight. After years of being told how immoral sex outside of marriage is, and how sex for other than procreation is a sin,  I was so wrought with guilt for wanting to experience it. Now, I can't imagine going without this ever again. Fuck procreation and fuck my mother. I fucking Love the way THIS feels, and there is no fucking way I am abstaining from this ever again.  In fact, I can't wait to get my next cock in my hands… in my mouth… in All of me. I have so much lost time to make up for and I can't wait to start… By spr1987 for Literotica

In this inspiring episode, host Lesley Logan shares remarkable stories of personal success and transformation from the Be It podcast community. Listeners will hear about Ainsley's journey of persistence and self-advocacy, Megan's triumph in launching her first masterclass, Lori's dedication to mindfulness, and Lesley's own progress with a major project. Each story highlights the power of setting intentions and celebrating achievements, no matter the size.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Ainsley's determination to follow up on a salary owed.Megan successfully launches her first masterclass.Lori maintains a daily commitment to the Calm app for over three years.Lesley celebrates the near completion of a significant project.Episode References/Links:eLevateOPC Flashcards  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. DEALS! Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSox Be in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar  Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramFacebookLinkedIn  Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah Friday.Brad Crowell 0:01  Fuck Yeah. Lesley Logan 0:02  Get ready for some wins. Lesley Logan 0:05  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.  Lesley Logan 0:46  Hello, Be It babe. How are you? Happy Friday. Oh my god, how is it the last Friday in April already? This year is just flying by in the most amazing ways. And I know that that can feel kind of crazy and chaotic. And, you know, it's like we just celebrated spring in our like, people already talking about summer. And you know, for my people in Southern Hemisphere, you're like, please, can we talk about spring because I'd like to get out of this weather that we're in. I'm so excited for you. I'm so excited for where you're going today. Whether you're driving to work, or you're driving home, or maybe you've got something kind of stressful about to go to it, but I'm excited for you because everything is happening for you. It really, really is. And we get to connect the dots looking backwards later on. And that's really, really fun. So if this is your first time listening to FYF, hi. We celebrate wins, I read out wins that were sent in to us. And then I share a win of mine and we get to see how many ways you can celebrate wins. Good ones, things that feel a little off things that like actually feel like a loss, but then they actually turned out to be a win. We got some of those coming up to share with you in the future weeks. So you know, what are your wins? We want to hear them send them into the Be It pod. Lesley Logan 1:58  All right, first up is Ainsley. Ainsley is an Agency member and eLevate member she'd been in Cambodia with me. She lights up every room she's in. So she said, this week I got gifted 711 pounds. Yes, it should have been over 14,000 pounds from a salary I'd earned for a company I'd previously worked for 10 years for that with into administration in 2020. But this gift I got because I followed up and refused to accept that I had not received what was due because one human put a line through my name because I was having an operation. It was about me setting boundaries. It's a gift because it's symbolic and full closure of previous chapters. It forced me to pivot and retrain. When I thought I was at my lowest. I was not, that came later. Little did I know it truly was done for me at the time and not to me. Who knew I could be so much happier creating and curating this life. I want to lead not and not have to. So this is the life she wants to live and not have to. Isn't that beautiful? Alright, she said this week I'm fully celebrating with the 711 pounds intentionally, spending every penny so it's not swallowed up by daily bills. My studio got a repaint some new magic circles for group class and the decorator has a cancellation for next week. So is painting my bedroom and kitchen to a new color. Fresh energy, gray be gone. Bedroom represents sleep, common rest. Kitchen represents nourish me and my family. There's 95 pounds leftover from a Lumi ice bath for daily habits. Oh, and a new set of matching mugs represent cup of teas with friends, family chats. These are for me what 2024 are to be about, building on what I have, my skills, my business, my family and my home. Ainsley, freaking way to advocate for yourself. It should have been more but like way to like, just freaking get some for you as you were to. And then to truly and being so intentional about that money. Oh my gosh, it's beautiful. Thank you for sharing this win. Because it's really beautiful to celebrate and I got to picture how you would use that money and I'm just so excited for you. Lesley Logan 3:58  Megan Clements who actually was in Cambodia at the same time Ainsley was also a win, she's an Agency member and she wrote, I taught my first masterclass today 10 of 12 spaces filled, super happy with how it went. And I have three more in the series. Way to go, Megan, way to go. I mean, it's so new things even when teaching long time are can be so difficult and like I love that you're celebrating that you got the first one done and that you could have more in that series. So congratulations. Lesley Logan 4:23  Lori Watson. She's an OPC member. Oh gee, Agency member, she actually will contribute to OPC workshops and we've got one coming up with her at summer camp and she has a win. My win. I've been consistent on the Calm app for 1096 days. That's three years plus one day. I listen everyday to the Daily Calm in the morning before getting out of bed. I listen to the Daily Jay midday as well as do the Daily Moves. Every evening I listen to the Daily Tip once in bed and sometimes after I will listen to a Sleep Story. Do breathwork in your music. I figured since I've been working out daily anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes since I recovered my 2020 Fusion somewhere around June of 2020, I started adding sessions on the equipment. I would add the mindful piece. Anyway, that's my win. Thanks, LL, for always encouraging me and always believing in me. Lori, you're freaking incredible. And I remember when you started that Daily Calm, and I mean, like 1096 days in a row. And you already do so many things daily. But I love that you have a morning, noon, and night thing that just is truly part of your day and who you are and supporting you in every way. So you've got your movement, you've got your mind, and it's just beautiful. So thank you for sharing. Guys, I want you to know, I know Lori has actually celebrated her Daily Calm days sooner than three years. And I think that's really important to note. But I also love that she keeps celebrating it. The reason why we celebrate things, you guys, is that it actually puts dopamine in the brain and that helps create habits. And so my Agency members, my eLevate members, my OPC members are used to celebrating FYF always. They've been doing it for years. And it's because it's how habits are truly created. That's how they're made. So if you are trying to make something happen in your life you've got to put happiness around it and epic celebrations around it. And also the reason why we do FYF is like, my goodness at the end of the week, instead of looking at what you haven't done yet what you got done, right What did you do? Lesley Logan 6:17  So a win of mine. Okay, this win is a little bit long time coming to celebrate actually did it a few weeks ago, but I have not celebrated it with fully with you. And so I'm also just not done celebrating it yet because it was a freaking ton of work like a shit ton of work. But I got the draft first draft done of the flashcards and they are on the Design Cards Online where we set everything up before we hit print. It's a really big deal because this is like the biggest step into getting closer to hitting print on this deck. This deck was a big beast of a deck. I mean, they're all big beasts of a deck but like the Mat Deck was like mat, the Reformer Deck felt like a beast, the Cadillac Deck I was just like, oh what did I get myself into, the Chairs Deck, I was like okay, I think I got it going, the Barrels Deck did was like it felt like a Cadillac Deck again, there's just like so many different parts to it. There's four different pieces of equipment in this deck, which is really, really huge. And I had to do the photoshoot after writing them instead of before. There's something nice about having the visual picture that goes with the thing and I had to do it the reverse because I was waiting for some equipment to be built. This has been a journey. And I'm so, so excited that we're one step closer to this deck being completed. But do you see, I'm not waiting for a deck to be completed to celebrate it, I'm celebrating that this biggest obstacle the biggest hurdle to getting closer to it being printed is done and now the reviews start so that means a contemporary teacher reviews them a non-teacher, non-client reviews them then I do a double check on them to make sure that they make sense. And then they actually go to a printer. And then we get to like see the kind of draft of it like what its gonna look like on the cards make sure we like the order of everything. And then it gets to you where you can actually do pre-sell. So anyways, big, huge, humongous win and I should have celebrated a few weeks ago but I'm celebrating it with you now. So I don't worry. I celebrated a ton at home. As soon as it was on I did a jump, jumping up and down and I went on a camping trip. So thank you all for those who do celebrate and support the flashcards we make, we make them for you, trust me I do not make them for me. I would not spend 500 hours writing if it was for me. So I'm just, I'm so excited for these to be in your hot little hands. Lesley Logan 8:34  So now the mantra part of our talk today and then you get to go off and celebrate your wins and I hope you send them to me so I can share them on the pod because when you get to hear them, it's like they happen a few months or weeks ago and then when you hear them you get to re-enjoy that win, it's pretty cool. I love that I love what I love. I love that I love what I love. I love that I love what I love. Oh I love that. Don't you love that? I love that I love what I love. Well, I love you. And I love that I love that. You are amazing you bring me so much joy and thank you so much for being a Be It pod listener, for leaving reviews for sharing this podcast with a friend and until next time, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 9:20  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day.   Lesley Logan 9:48  Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. 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Tayler comes back from Omaha, Cole learns the difference between apes & monkeys, Tayler finally tries a pasty & the boys talk about why there are so many golf courses in North Dakota. Oh yeah, & it was WrestleMania weekend, so Fuck Yeah!  All of that & more on this weeks edition of Comic Can Coozie!

Annie finally rejects her abstinent life and finds how much joy a cock can bring her.By spr1987 for Literotica. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.“Oh my God… it feels so hot in my hand… and how can it be this hard and this soft feeling at the same time?” These are the thoughts racing through my mind, as I feel a real live cock in my hands for the first time. I know what you are thinking, “You are 19 years old Annie, and you are pretty hot looking… so how can this be the first time you have had a cock in your hands?”First, thank you for saying I'm hot. As a petite red head with a larger than normal pair of tits, I think I'm pretty hot also, but it is always nice to hear it. Second, I was raised in a very religious home, and sex was absolutely forbidden. In fact, my mother even made a habit of checking my panties and bedsheets to make sure that I wasn't masturbating. Yes, I realize now how twisted that sounds. But it was how I was raised, to think that self-pleasure and sex were mortal sins. Hell, even now I feel guilty every time I touch myself. Not to mention that right now, I am feeling pretty wrong emotionally, about this cock in my hands.Although I am feeling the guilt from years of conditioning, I can't help feeling a rush of excitement all through my body, as I squeeze and rub this thick cock. I am assuming it is thick. I have no basis for this judgement because, as I said several times already, this is my first cock. All I know is that I can't get my small hand around it and when I stack both of my hands, there is still all of the big swollen head left sticking out. My God that head looks big. I catch myself thinking that it looks like the helmet of one of those stormtrooper guys from Star Wars. I have to swallow the laugh that is threatening to burst out of me.I trace my fingers around that big helmet, and I am surprised at how smooth the skin is. I trace my finger along the groove in the front and the whole cock Jumps in my hands. I look up at the guy's face, wondering if I did something wrong or hurt him or something. I see that he has his eyes squeezed shut tightly and his mouth is open in an audible moan. I make a mental note that this is a good thing. At this same time, I feel and see liquid leak out of the cock's slit. I touch it and I like how slick it feels on my fingers. I rub it between my thumb and finger and relish the slick feeling. Then I run my slick fingers around the smooth cock head. I love how slippery it feels on the smooth skin of the head. I trace my slick fingers all around the edges of the cock's helmet. “It is like I am trying to memorize every detail of my fascinating new plaything.”I run my other hand down to the bottom of his shaft and discover his balls. I cup them and feel them move around in their soft wrinkled sack. I roll them around in my fingers, enjoying how they move so fluidly. I sort of ring my fingers around behind them and pull them down, enjoying how the sack stretches tight and I can feel the balls hard in my hand. I squeeze, just to see what this will feel like. The guy almost screams out, “Oh my God, Yes,” when I do that. I make another mental note, that this is a good thing. Then I wonder, what will happen if I squeeze his balls at the same time as I rub my finger along his tender groove? “Fuck yes.” he screams out, as I try this experiment.Well, that confirms my thesis, I smile to myself and continue to gently pulse his big full balls in one hand, while teasing his sensitive head with my other. I think to myself, I am so glad that he likes this because I really love how this feels for me when I am doing it. I start to wonder, "How the Hell, have I never heard about how amazing cocks and balls feel?“ I have talked with quite a few other girls about their sexual experiences, and I can't remember a single one telling me how amazing cocks felt in their hands. "I fucking Love this,” I think to myself as I really concentrate on the feeling of this cock and those full balls in my hands.Then the thought enters my head, “If it feels this good in my hands, how will it feel in my mouth?” I immediately hear my mother's voice in my head chastising me, “You should be ashamed of yourself Annabeth, for even thinking such a thing.”Then I tell the guilt wielding mother in my head, “Shut the fuck up Mother… and it is Annie… Nobody calls me Annabeth anymore.” Then I show her that she is no longer the boss of me, as I take this big cock into my mouth. Well, to be honest, I take the head and maybe another inch or so in my mouth. “My God, this thing is big. Are they all This big?” I wonder to myself as I feel that swollen thick head push into the soft spot at the roof of my mouth.I pull my mouth off of it enough, so that I can suck my lips around the helmet. I run my tongue around the smooth head, as I suck my cheeks around it. “Oh my God, this feels so exciting and so naughty,” I think to myself as I feel like I will pee myself from the overwhelming exhilaration. I am suddenly yanked from my moment of bliss, when I feel the guy's hands grab my head almost violently. Again, thinking that I hurt him, I try to pull my mouth off of his cock. He latches on even harder and almost begs, “No, Please don't stop… keep doing That…”Relieved that I am not doing it wrong, I go back to doing what I was just doing. As I run my tongue around his smooth head and down the shaft as far as I can reach my tongue, I moan around the cock, as I recover my overwhelming feeling of exhilaration at the feel of this cock on my lips, and on my tongue, and on the fleshy insides of my cheeks. I slide all of them over and around this cock, as I rediscover the feeling of his big balls in my hand.Overcome by the sensations of this cock in my mouth, I can't stop my other hand from sliding under my skirt and into my thong. Um, I am so fucking wet. I push two fingers into my wet pussy. My pussy feels so wet and squishy and warm around my fingers. I wonder if this is what his cock feels when it is in my mouth. I start to imagine that my fingers and his cock are the same. I start to push my mouth on his cock more and more, as I push my fingers deeper and deeper inside myself. I move up and down on his cock at the same speed as I am pushing my fingers into me. When I begin to gag myself by forcing his cock into my mouth so fast and so deep, I realize how fast and desperately I am finger fucking myself. It is at that exact moment that I push myself over the edge and cum Streaming around his cock.I didn't realize how close he was, until at that same time, I feel his cock swell even larger and twitch in my mouth as I feel hot surges hitting the back of my throat. Because I am in the middle of an uncontrolled scream, “I feel his cum continue to shoot directly down my throat.I can actually feel it coating my throat.” Then I start coughing uncontrollably, because, as I was riding my overpowering orgasm, I was also desperately gasping for breath. I hope I didn't breathe his cum into my lungs. For a fleeting moment, I wonder if it is possible to drown from cum in my lungs?As I get control of my breathing, I realize that I am not going to drown. I am twice as relieved, knowing that my mother will not have to recover my body from the university, after learning that I died by drowning in cum, as I sucked the cock of a guy I just met. Jeff… or Jake… or is it Jim? I am pretty sure it is a “J” name. I hope it is the overpowering orgasm I just had that is keeping my brain from recalling his name, and not the fact that I am a total slut who sucks the cock of a guy she doesn't know the name of.As I contemplate how much of a slut I really am, I start to think, "Well, if I am going to condemn myself for being a slut, I might as well go all the way.“ In that moment, I decide that I am getting fucked for the first time. Well, that is if this guy… J.. something, can get his cock hard again. Realizing the decision is in my hands… literally… I am holding his softening cock in my hand… I start to slowly squeeze and stroke it.Figuring that I should get J… J… J-dog involved in the decision, I say to him, "Um, I loved how your cock felt in my mouth… I would love even more to feel what he is like in my pussy… You want to feel your big, thick cock deep inside me?”“Fuck Yeah,” he enthusiastically agrees. Then in a more subdued way he adds, “But you got to give me a minute… You know… to get ready…”I do in fact know what he means. I can feel his cock in my hand, clearly not ready to do the pushing that I so desperately need right now. It is not an unpleasant feeling though. I actually really enjoy the soft, flexible feeling of his cock in my hand. It is not fully soft, but just hard enough to weigh heavily in my hand. I squeeze it and I love the way it compresses. It feels like a very warm stress toy. I realize how much I would love to have a cock in this exact state, when I am stressed in class or doing an assignment in my dorm. I shake it and flop it around in my hand and love the way it moves.“I am suddenly jealous, that guys get to have these things with them all the time. Then I wonder if they hold them and squeeze them when they need stress relief?”He taps me on the head and rips me from the labyrinth of my twisted thoughts. It is then that I realize that his cock is Very much up for the task at hand… again, my hand…“Don't you think you should take off your clothes? Or do you just want me to bend you over and flip up your skirt?” he asks me.“Oh My,” I think to myself, as I suddenly get the image in my head of him forcing me over the arm of the couch and taking me from behind like an animal. Battling with myself in my mind, I think I should lead him to think I am a lady and do this in a dignified manner. However, I realize that I fucking need this Bad and I need it Now.Standing up, I reach under my skirt and almost tear my thong as I pull it off my hips and down my legs. Then I turn toward the arm of the couch and lean over it, as I spread my legs. As I turn to look back at him, the desperate look on my face, is all the answer he needs.I keep looking back as he aims his cock toward my wet, waiting, and Very willing pussy. He doesn't even use his hands as he pushes it against my swollen and Very sensitive pussy lips. He moves back and forth slightly, making his cock slide along my wet groove. Oh my God, the feeling of the big smooth head is even more amazing against the lips of my pussy, than it was against the lips of my mouth. I squeeze my pussy, trying to kiss it… to suck it into me… I feel his cock start to push my lips open. I realize that he is not moving, it is me, who is moving back, desperately trying to fuck myself onto his cock. I feel him slightly pull back with each of my thrust back. I look up to see him grinning at the desperate look on my face. I finally beg out loud, "Please… put it in… Please… fuck me… Please… Fuck me Now…“Without a word he pushes his cock right into me. I gasp out loud as I literally feel like all of the air is pushed out of my lungs. I am not sure how deep he went with that first thrust, but I feel like I am impaled on the damn thing. I feel so full that I am afraid I will tear in half, if he pushes any deeper. Surprisingly, it is not painful though. Luckily for both of us, I broke my hymen in a tragic accidental fall on a dildo… Okay, I was masturbating. I said my mother made me feel guilty about it. I never said that I didn't do it. And thank God that I did. This may be the first real cock inside me, but it is Definitely not the first time I have had cock like objects inside me. And my God, the number of cock like objects I have inside me… Well, let's just say I have been training Very hard for this moment.Yet, for all of the training I have done, None of it compares to what this feels like for real. Fuck, the heat and hard flexibility of this cock inside me… It is almost indescribable. I feel like he is entering my soul. I feel like his cock is in control of my body and mind. I want this… I want this a Lot. Then, just when I am deciding that this feeling is better than anything I can imagine, he starts to move slowly out and then back in… and it gets better… Much better. I feel like he is turning me inside out, as he slowly pulls his cock out of me. Then he holds it with just the head inside me, keeping me spread so wide. I get desperate for more. Why the Fuck is he holding it there?I look back pleadingly. I see him smile at me with a devilish grin and then, Slam, he pushes all the way back inside me. Three things happen at the same time. I feel him pound deep inside me.His big heavy balls Slap against my WAY oversensitive clit.I actually see stars and lose control of my legs as I cum so hard that I am afraid I popped a blood vessel in my head. I am not sure if I lose consciousness, but as I ride the most amazing orgasm of my life, I feel like I am flopping around like my whole body is made of jelly, as he continues to hammer away in and out of me. When I feel fluids gushing out of my pussy, I am mortified, thinking that I must have lost control of myself and peed all over his cock, balls and thighs.He suddenly stops fucking, with his cock half inside me. I am afraid that he is grossed out by my loss of control. I am sure that I will be humiliated when everyone at the university hears about “Annie the incontinent slut”. Then he surprises me by saying, “Fuck Yeah… You're a squirter. I never fucked a squirter before. That was fucking amazing.” “That shit splashed out of you so hard, I felt like someone turned a hose on me.”With my face so red that I am sure it is glowing, I ask him, “So you are not grossed out by That?”“Fuck No,” he answers and then starts pushing his cock back in and out of me. I am embarrassed by the loud squishing and squelching sounds his cock is making as he fucks in and out of me. Then I feel a weird new feeling. It is like there is a surge of water into me with each thrust in, and a much stronger suction with each pull out. As I realize that I am building to another orgasm, he warns me, “I got to tell you, after I cum once, I can keep going for a Very long time after. The thoughts of this amazing cock fucking me for a Very long time, sends waves of exhilaration through me and I Clench around his cock, telling him, "Give me All you got… Fuck me hard and long… fuck me until I can't walk.”My spontaneous haiku has the desired effect, and he Slams into me so hard that his hips Slap on my ass and it stings like he spanked me with his hand. I feel him grab my hips with both hands. He grabs so hard that I can feel his fingers dig into the soft flesh in the hollows of my hip bones. Then just as quickly he releases them, and I feel his hands reach up to unbutton my blouse. Feeling him fumbling with them, I reach up and take over. I quickly have the buttons undone and I wildly flap my arms trying to throw the blouse off of me.As my blouse finally flies off my wildly flailing arm, I feel his hands grab my bra clasp and almost violently pull it open. Leaning forward like I am, the bra Snaps open and falls down my arms. My 36 double D tits that were straining hard against my bra, are now free and wildly flapping their wings trying to fly away. Well, more flopping than flapping. With each of his hard thrusts into me, I feel my heavy tits bounce forward and Slap against my neck and shoulders. Then I feel them recoil and Slap back against my rib cage and under my arms. Yes, in case you missed it, they are all natural and definitely out of my ability to control them.He is relentlessly fucking me, and I can already feel my heavy tits start to ache from their wild flopping and bouncing. I am about to reach up to catch them with my hand and arm, to try to stop the bouncing, when I feel him reach around and cup each of my tits in his hands. I feel him hold them just enough, so that that they jiggle and bounce in his hands. The rubbing of my nipples on his palms is driving me fucking insane. He Squeezes my tits and weighs them appreciatively, as he tells me, “You've got fucking amazing tits. I love these big fucking tits.”Then for emphasis, he takes my nipples between his fingers and thumbs, and pulls, and rolls, and Pinches them, which pushes me over a cliff I wasn't even sure I was standing next to. “Fuck,” I Scream out loud, as once again I feel my fluids gush out of me and my arms give out, as I fall on my face, having another overwhelming orgasm. As my pussy squeezes and spasms around his cock inside me, I keep getting electric shocks of overstimulation, which makes my orgasm continue like a series of explosions that won't end. All I can think about is the overpowering pleasure and the feeling of that cock filling me and touching me so completely. I have never done drugs, but I imagine this feeling of euphoria must be what drug addicts feel. I know right then and there that I will need to feel this all the time, from now on.I am suddenly pulled from my post orgasm bliss, by a new sensation. As he continues to slowly push in and out of my pussy, he starts to lightly tease my sensitive butt hole with his thumb. It feels like he is thrumming my sensitive ring with his thumb, like it is a guitar string or something. There is something very naughty and very exciting about it. It is also sending electric shocks of excitement through my entire body with each thrum of his thumb. Each thrum seems to short circuit my brain and it also seems to excite every nerve inside my already overstimulated pussy. I feel my excitement being driven higher and higher. I feel like it will become too much for my body and mind to handle, and I will fucking explode.“Fuck,” I Scream out, as he changes from a thrumming of my butt hole to a thumping of his thumb on it. Oh my God… I have Never felt anything like this, and it is making my entire body twitch and spasm with each thump. He is doing it at a faster pace now and I can almost feel my pulse beating faster to match his thumping pace. I suddenly realize that I am loudly moaning in a rhythmic pattern, “Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,” over and over, with each thump of his thumb on my butt hole. I also realize that I am pushing back onto his cock desperately to meet his cock pushing into me, at the same pace. I also feel myself pushing back onto that fucking thumb, that is driving me insane.Feeling how positively my body is reacting to his teasing, on the next thump, he doesn't stop. He pushes his thumb right past my tight ring. I loudly Gasp, “Oh,” as I feel his thumb Pop past my tight butt hole. I notice immediately how wet and slippery his thumb is, from all of the fluids I recently squirted all over him. I also notice that his thumb doesn't feel anything like I thought it would. I had thought about anal sex before, but always dismissed the idea because I imagined that it would hurt quite badly. But this… this feels Very different than I feared it would. As I start to squeeze my butt around his thumb, sort of getting a better feel of my sudden intruder, I realize that he is slowly pushing and pulling it in and out of me, in time to his cock's motion in my pussy. I realize that I Really like this double stimulation.I start to grind back again, pushing his cock and thumb into me harder and faster. I suddenly feel a desperate need for more. I want him fucking me deep and hard in both of my holes. An image enters my brain of getting fucked like this by two different men… two cocks… one in my pussy and one in my butt… oh my God… do I really want to feel a cock in my butt??? His cock is so much bigger than his thumb, but that damn thumb feels so fucking good right now… These are all the random, wild thoughts racing through my head as I come to the conclusion, “Hell Yes, I want to know what his cock will feel like in my butt.”Before I can chicken out, I turn my head back and meekly tell him, "You can put it in my… butt… You know… fuck my butt… if you want…““Oh God Yes,” he almost shouts, as I feel him quickly pull his cock from my pussy. I feel empty, physically and emotionally, as that cock is suddenly ripped away from me. However, that emptiness is just as quickly filled when I feel him push that cock right into my butt. Fortunately for me, he didn't jam it in as deep and as fast as he did when he first entered my pussy. However, it was hard and deep enough to make me feel like I am trying to suck all the oxygen out of the air as I Gasp from the sudden intrusion. As my whole body Clenches in response to the large visitor in my butt, I feel like someone is touching me with live wires. Shock after shock races through my body, and my mind is short circuited as it tries to decide on the right response to having a cock suddenly shoved into my virgin butt hole.Finally, my brain settles on pleasure, and I realize that my whole-body clench is relaxing, and I am releasing my butt hole's death grip on his cock. He feels me relax and starts to slowly push more of his cock into me. This makes my brain reconsider its decision and my body puts on the breaks again, resuming my butt's death grip on his cock. He stops again, which causes my brain and body to give in again. After a seemingly endless series of stops and starts, I feel his hips press against my round fleshy butt, and I realize that he is fully inside me. And when I say fully, I mean Full. I never imagined such a full feeling. I feel like he is touching places that I didn't even know I had inside me. In fact, I think he is pushing up against my pancreas. Where the heck is the pancreas anyway? It's got to be up in there somewhere, right?All thoughts of my pancreas fly out of my head as I feel him slowly draw his cock out of me. I feel like he is pulling my soul out of me through my butt. I almost laugh as I think about the movie “Riddick”, and the scenes where the Necromancer guy is pulling a person's soul out of them. Except in my case, he is doing it from my butt hole. My urge to laugh is suddenly replaced by an overwhelming pleasure as he draws his cock along something VERY sensitive inside me. I moan out loud as I feel something so fantastic, it should have its own emoji. Then he pushes back in, causing me to start speaking in a language I have never heard before. I think if I could translate the words into English, they would come out as, "Oh my god that feels amazing. Fuck me Harder with that amazing cock of yours. Pound me until my guts spill out of my mouth.“ Instead, to my ears the words sound like, "Arga ah ah Gah; gahd…”Lucky for me, that he is fluent in “Cock Hungry Whore” or he is able to read my mind, because he starts to hammer into me fast and hard. This apparently rattles my brain enough that I can speak English again and I cry out, "God! Yes! More! Please!“Like a true gentleman, he gives me exactly what I asked for. I have to brace my hands to keep from being driven face first into the couch again. I feel my tits flopping wildly again. They even Slap me in the face, as I look down and back, to see if I can see his cock pushing into me. That will teach me to get in the way of those things when they are bouncing out of control. The sudden realization that his heavy balls are Slapping against my sensitive pussy with each thrust, takes my mind off my swinging tits, and drives me headlong toward the cliff of another powerful orgasm.As he bottoms out and Slap against my pussy one more time, I cum so hard that I let out a scream so high pitched that only dogs can hear it. At that same time, I feel his cock twitch inside me and his hands Clamp around my hips, as he shoots surge after surge after surge of cum Deep inside me. Then he collapses on top of my exhausted body. He is much larger than me and rather muscular. I feel like he will crush me. Again, my mind drifts to my mother and what she will think about her daughter, being crushed to death, with the man's cock still hard in her ass. "Get out of my head Mom… Let me enjoy the feeling of this cock slowly softening in my butt,” I shout in my mind.As I push all thoughts of my mother out of my head, I begin to really enjoy the feeling of this cock inside my butt. It is still so hot. My God, it is like it is on fire, warming me from the inside. And as it softens, I feel it slowly pulling from me. I feel my butt clenching, trying to hold this cock inside me. I don't want it to go. I want to keep feeling this cock inside me. I am almost afraid of how empty I will feel when he is finally out of me. Then Pop, his cock finally pulls from my clenching butt hole.As I feared, I feel empty and long for the cock that was just in my butt. “Justin… That's his name,” I realize. Then I laugh at the way my brain finally came up with that, as I thought about his cock “just in” my butt.Hearing me laughing unexpectedly, he asks me, “What… What's so funny?”Unable to control my laughter, I try to explain, "Justin… your name… and you were just in my butt… and just in my pussy… and just in my mouth…“ At that point I begin laughing so hard that I can't say any more.He barks out a laugh and says, "You idiot… my name is Jason." Then he continues laughing as he sees the surprised look on my face. If I could lift my arm, I would slap my palm against my head. Instead, I begin laughing hysterically again. We are now both laughing so hard that I feel both of our bodies shaking uncontrollably. Thank God he finally rolls off of me though, or I would have literally died laughing. Well, at least I would go out having been so thoroughly fucked.Although I would die happy, I sure as Hell would not be happy dying. As I lay here in the afterglow of pleasure I could never have imagined before, all I can think about is, "When can I do this again? When can I feel THIS again?” This may have been my first experience with a real cock, but I know for sure that it will Definitely not be my last. I want more… so much more. I want to know if all cocks feel like That or if it is just Justin… Jason… whoever… that can make me feel THIS. Even now I am thinking about that God of a man in my Chemistry class, and whether a guy that big will have a bigger cock than Jason. Then there is that guy with the dark chocolate skin who lives on the floor above mine in the dorm… Is it true what they say? I am so going to find out. I suddenly realize that there are a great many cocks in the world for me to sample… and I want to sample as many as I can…I laugh at myself and how just a few hours ago, I was worrying myself to death over whether I was finally going to give up my virginity tonight. After years of being told how immoral sex outside of marriage is, and how sex for other than procreation is a sin, I was so wrought with guilt for wanting to experience it. Now, I can't imagine going without this ever again. Fuck procreation and fuck my mother. I fucking Love the way THIS feels, and there is no fucking way I am abstaining from this ever again. In fact, I can't wait to get my next cock in my hands… in my mouth… in All of me. I have so much lost time to make up for and I can't wait to start…By spr1987 for Literotica

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Lesley and her listeners reflect on their growth, sharing inspiring stories that range from consistent mindfulness practices to embracing one's authentic self. The episode also looks forward, discussing goals and aspirations, such as publishing in new formats and embracing new challenges. It's a blend of reflection and forward-thinking, inspiring listeners to cherish their journey and stay excited about future possibilities. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The joy of celebrating unfinished wins.The power of consistency in personal growth.How to embrace to ditch imperfections and trust your process.Overcoming self-doubt to achieve your creative aspirations.Episode References/Links:Mentions, Tania Tsiora, an agency memberMentions, Laurie Watson, an agency membereLevate Round 4  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. Get your free Athletic Greens 1 year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 free travel packsGet your discount for some Toe Sox using the code: LESLEY Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar  Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramFacebookLinkedIn  Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah Friday.  Brad Crowell 0:01  Fuck yeah. Lesley Logan 0:02  Get ready for some wins.Lesley Logan 0:09  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 0:55  Hi, Be It babe, wow, we are really into January, we're so close into January. That's almost my birthday. That's how into January we are in. This is your weekly reminder to celebrate the wins that you are having in your life, even if things aren't finished, those are the best wins. So what we do here is when you do fuck yeah it's Friday, and we celebrate someone wins of yours and a win of mine, and hopefully that inspires you to count the wins that you have and maybe you do this every single day. I hope so what a great way to end the day. Lesley Logan 1:27  All right, so here we go. The first win this happened in December, and so Laurie Watson says oh, I have a cool win. I have been using the Calm app for many years but have been on a streak now for 1007 days. I'm gonna say one thing. Laurie Watson she is an Agency member, OPC member, she's been in eLevate. I've known her for years and I she's just one of the coolest people I know. She's like I have been doing the Calm app for many years but I'm in a streak now for 1007 days. And she, you guys it's around 50 days to go to make it three year straight of doing the daily Calm. What an epic win. And by the way, she celebrates her Calm streak all the time. So it's not like she's waiting until she has 1007 days. And I share that because it's so, so important that we celebrate the things we did do. Lesley Logan 2:29  Another win, this one is from an Agency member Tanya Sora. LL, my wins of this year have been my colleague working in the studio, the last year a great person, fabulous teacher. Another win is that she found Agency first time back in April following Lesley's webinar, Raising Rates Without Losing Clients. And her third win is being more myself. Ah Tanya, what a win to celebrate. Being more yourself is huge. I mean of course, I love that one of your wins is finding Agency back in April of last year and being an Agency member now we love, love, love supporting you. But the fact that you are celebrating that you are more yourself just brings me so much joy like being until you see it, way to go. And also that you've had a great person working with you for the last year. Congratulations. I love these wins.Lesley Logan 3:18  Okay, my win. I've got a few for you. I have a few for you. So one of those is we are two weeks away from kicking off eLevate Round Four and if you told me in 2022 that I would have a fourth round by now I would have been like, haha, so I'm just celebrating the fact that we're kicking that off in two weeks and I'm also celebrating the people who have signed up for it. I'm so I'm so blessed and honored to be able to work with them. I'm just truly grateful that they trust the process that I've created in ditching perfection when it comes to your teaching. I'm just day's made, my year is made really. So two weeks away from that and we are a week for my birthday which of course I will self-create that on my birthday stay tuned for that Fuck Yeah, Friday because it's my birthday is on Friday. So fuck yeah. Lesley Logan 4:07  But also, to celebrate this other win that I had. I, many years ago when we released well, it's over 10 years ago I released my book Profitable Pilates: Everything But the Exercises. And then in 2000 and, what is today, it's the 24th, so 2022 we re-released it on its ninth year anniversary re-released it, edited, read on the cover, like bunch of links added it was just updated a bit. It's still amazing actually, like I didn't have to edit a lot. There's just some things that were slightly outdated as far as like some technology goes, but I'm just really, really proud of what that book's standing power staying power is but I wasn't doing it on Kindle. And I wasn't doing it on an audio version of it. One because back when they asked me many years ago, I was like I hate my voice. But the other day, Brad and I, I feel like we're like going to the airport, I'm not really sure what's happening. And he's just like, hey, I really want us to revisit a Kindle version of your book and an audio version of that. Yep, we can do those things. And so yeah, we're doing those things. So, this year, I'm making it a priority to get the Profitable Pilates: Everything But the Exercises book on Kindle. And I am making it a priority to get to read my own book. Oh, my God. I mean, if you've heard the interview, recaps, where I like screw up the intros all the time. I'm going to give myself a lot of grace and space to make this book happen. But I'm, it's a, it's a goal. And so I hope to get that done probably in Q2, once the Barrels Deck is out there, but these are, I'm celebrating these wins. Again, they're not done yet. But I'm celebrating the win that I am making the decision that I'm going to do them, and I'm not getting my own way around it. And so Fuck Yeah, it's Friday. And we're in a new year. And it's not a new year, because that's bullshit. You'd see the same awesome you, but with new ideas, new information about how you can do things in a better way and being it till you see it. Lesley Logan 6:15  So thanks so much for listening to this podcast. Thank you for sharing it with your friends. We'll have a great interview coming up on Tuesday and until next time, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 6:26  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. 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Join Lesley and Alice as they discuss the essence of daily happiness, the art of nurturing joy, the role of perspective, and the significance of human balance, all while navigating life confidently amidst chaos. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Effective strategies to cultivate personal happiness.How to prioritize self in a chaotic modern world.Practical ways to incorporate mindfulness into everyday routines.How to channel Chinese elements into superhero personas for empowerment.Benefits of Face Yoga and its impact on your well-being.Episode References/Links:Follow Alice on IGFollow Alice on FacebookHappiness U websiteLearn Face Yoga on the Youthify Face ClubYouthify Face Club Face Yoga Class Gift LinkGuest Bio:Alice Inoue is a life expert and founder of Happiness U. She helps people find answers in life and get clarity on anything they are going through. She does this through personal consultations, classes, small-group coaching, corporate training, our self-created psychometric assessment, articles and nine books.  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. Get your free Athletic Greens 1 year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 free travel packsGet your discount for some Toe Sox using the code: LESLEY Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesFollow Us on Social Media:InstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Alice Inoue 0:00  When you look at different polls that are taken, you ask people what do you want in life, it will be I want money, I want love, I want health and happiness is always on there. And sometimes the things that people want are because they think that will make them happy. And I think that my, what I stand upon is that we create our own happiness based on our perspective and how we look at situations and that life is always bringing you exactly what you need not really what you want.Lesley Logan 0:27  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.I want to tell you this right now, what I love about doing these intros as I do them after I've talked to the guests, I don't know if you know that that's how I do them. So sometimes I give all the spoilers away in the intro. Sorry. But also, I just think sometimes you can listen to a topic and you think, oh, maybe this person isn't for me. And I just want to make sure that you know that they're all here for you. Because you're gonna pick up different things at different times. And if you're gonna re-listen to some of the episodes, you might pick up on different things. I have some podcast episodes that I like have saved I'll go back and go, Oh, I forgot that. So anyways, today's guest she was referred to us and I looked at her website and I was like, Heck yeah, I haven't heard anyone talk about this. I'm gonna just tell you, she was like, better than I am like I could have ever anticipated. I don't know what I was anticipating. But also like, sometimes when you hear buzzwords like happiness, or, you know, I don't know, there's, you know, mindfulness and alignment. Sometimes you're like, okay, can they really get down to like the brass tacks, like how to do that, like, as someone who likes to, like know, the nitty gritty, like, can you tell me how to repeat this experiment that you've done, y'all she can, so you're gonna leave with a smile on your face, it's so big. And you're gonna learn a whole heck of a ton on on happiness, yourself, permission, and a little dose of face yoga in there. So my loves thank you for being here. Thank you for always listening to the podcast, thank you for downloading it, you have no idea. Every time you download, it's really big deal. It actually is like, literally currency for us. So thank you, every time you share a podcast with someone, even one person, you have no idea how impactful that is. So never underestimate the power of what you have in your hand. And how you how you can impact the world. And this episode, I think is going to change your life in the best of ways. And it's a way it's going to change others around you as well. You're amazing that you're being here. And here's Alice Inoue. All right, Be It babe, I'm really excited to have this amazing conversation. So our today's guest was introduced to us by a former guest, which is always so fun, because it's someone who loved us so much and love the experience. Like you'd have to talk to this person. And when someone has Happiness U as like their business, of course, I have to talk to this person So, Alice, Inoue, welcome to the Be It pod will you tell everyone who you are and what you're up to?Alice Inoue 3:19  Hi, Lesley, thank you. I am Alice Inoue. And I live in Honolulu, Hawaii, and I'm the founder of a business called Happiness U and we're in business for 10 years. And we opened as a brick and mortar, basically a place where you could learn everything you wanted to learn about life that you didn't learn in school. And so we do this through presentations, coaching, community groups, all of that. So really, just to help people find clarity in life.Lesley Logan 3:46  Oh, my goodness, that's 10 years ago, you started this the brick and mortar, you're like, hey, come to school here come to Happiness with me. Was that easy? Were people like, yes, that's exactly what I needed. Or was it people like that over there?Alice Inoue 3:59  No, it's like you're doing what? Why? And it was I thought it was such a I was doing, you know, life coaching. I'm an astrologer. I'm a Feng Shui a person. So I was doing all this help, help self help kind of stuff. And I thought, well, wouldn't it be great because I met all these other experts that could also have information to offer. Wouldn't it be great to have a school and so I wanted to call it The School of Life and people are like life is hard. Why would we go to that? Try to get a loan from the bank? Forget it. They're like no business model. Like why don't you just do it online. But I really just wanted a place where people could come and get insight in in a brick and mortar at first, and we had like beanbag chairs and bright colorful interior so that we could do that. But why it was difficult is the idea. While the idea was great, who wouldn't like a place called Happiness U. I felt that people just didn't make the time to come down and take care of themselves, their pet their dog, their grandparents their work. So it was a struggle seriously to really get people I wanted members, I wanted people to come and take classes from all these great teachers. So it was hard, but I can I can say for the fifth year, it started to kind of kind of take off and then as the pandemic hit, we went online a lot. And and that was where it was become became really, really necessary.Lesley Logan 5:19  Yeah, I was gonna say you're probably like, having all those years behind you, when the pandemic that you were, like, set up to support people. And it was in a way, I you know, it doesn't it sadly, doesn't surprise me that it was hard to sell people on a Happiness U place or and I don't know that you were if you were online at that time, if you would have had it any different. You know what I mean? Because people, it's almost like they see happiness is for people over there. Oh, it's easy for those happiness is for those people. Because of the life I had. I'm just it's not, it's not possible for it's like they don't believe it, right? Am I, is that what you found?Alice Inoue 5:53  Or they're like, are they like, there's there's just a whole bunch of unhappy people there. Do people just go and cry? It's just the concept of it. Oh, like, you know, what my mother in law needs that class. Like, I had all the quips and excuses. And, and then people said, it's like insurance, just knowing I was there was good enough, but that didn't pay my bills. So it took it took some time. But I really believed in the vision and I it's, it's funny now. It's just what I do. And I live in in Hawaii. So it's quite known here. And we just since the pandemic and last year to start this online. Happiness U Hui which is like a community gathering. So now we get to interact with more people. And it's a lot better. Lesley Logan 6:32  Yeah, yeah. I think also people got a big reset on like, what's important to them? Like, you know, yeah. Okay, so let's just kind of talk about happiness, because I do. I do think when people say, oh, my mother-in-law, it's like, oh, what is your happiness box check. So like, what? What is happiness you defined as? And like, what are some signs, we need more happiness in our life?Alice Inoue 6:57  Okay. So I think what it is, is, and it's interesting that it's called Happiness U. So of course, we're thinking of happiness. When you look at different polls that are taken, you ask people, What do you want in life, it will be I want money, I want love, I want health and happiness is always on there. And sometimes the things that people want are because they think that will make them happy. And I think that my, what I stand upon is that we create our own happiness based on our perspective, and how we look at situations and that life is always bringing you exactly what you need, not really what you want. And by shifting our perspective into just understanding how to navigate life, I think that's what it what it is, and happiness, what I found out and why I was able to kind of open the school back in 2008, they had, they had a bunch of science come out and say that happiness is a skill. It's something that you learn, just like how you learn to tie or how you learn to play racquetball or something, the more you practice it, the happier you get. So what we do is we offer tools, and they're just in the form of everyday life experiences, specifically such as, like, how do you become happier? How you go and get happier? Like is, you know, is it a reading a book? Is it? What is it so the tools that have been proven to work and to kind of up your, you know, create those neural networks that create more happiness is really at the end of the day. And this is so good, because I've seen it happen and work with thousands of people at the end of the day, you look back, and you think of three specific things that went well, because you notice that the end of the day, it's like, oh, that didn't go well, I didn't finish that I started to have several (inaudible). So you make your brain scan the day and think of three specific things that went well has to be specific. You do this for seven days in a row. On the eighth day, magically, your brain forms a new neural network, because we don't want to work hard. And it's hard work scanning the day and looking for what's good. So then all of a sudden, your brain will show you a little bit more of what's good. So that's why you hear about gratitude journals. It I think a lot of times you don't need to do it correctly, I'll just say it's great to be grateful for this and grateful for that. But if you can write down I am grateful for my, my father or mother because she or he did this, like if you are specific. You can think about it when you're negative. You're so specific. I can't stand that person because she always done that or that or that it were so specific when it's negative, but when it's positive or just like oh, I'm thankful for my body. I'm thankful for the day. And so that does not make you happier because we're focusing on the specifics of the negative so it's focusing on the specifics of what is good, it is going to create that balance.Lesley Logan 9:42  Okay. I love this so much because I love celebrations like we have, we have FYF which is Fuck Yeah, Friday and so Friday, you must celebrate something that went well and you're week because we have a lot of overachievers and perfectionist who listen, hello, I see you and I like if we could see Start doing on Friday, eventually you'll start doing on Saturday too or Sunday or Monday. But I do love that you're saying like at the end of the day scan for what went well. So it's not been perfect. It's not what like, it's like what went well today what was oh, my commute was actually so easy today like getting that specific. I like that. And it's true, then your brain also just starts going, oh, this went well and to start looking for things because you're you're ending the day on a high note. And you're, you're actually like, there's a there's an act of celebration and like what went well, but at the end of the day, I love this.Alice Inoue 10:30  Because you putting value? Because we all know, we all know what didn't go well. We all know what what we still have to do. We all know the stressors that's natural, because that comes to our brain first. But when you take that little extra effort, right, just like you're exercising your body to be more in shape, you're exercising your brain to be smarter in the way that it feeds you information. And it's it's as easy as choosing to do something like that. It's as easy as that. And that's what why I'm so inspired by it, because it's easy, you don't just want to believe every thought that pops in your head, because so many times it's just not even valuable to you. So we're looking for value, specific value, because it's always there. If you look for it.Lesley Logan 11:11  Yeah. No, you're, you're 100%, right. And also, like, we've had some brain experts on who are like, well, you're, if you're frustrated with yourself, because you're always going to the negative, like just so you know, your brain is predisposed to do that for safety. So like you it's not, that's why we do have to practice. And I think it is actually really interesting that you're talking about this in a way because it's true. You know, happiness is a skill. And I think we think of it as an emotion as something that should just be like, like air, like it should just be around us.Alice Inoue 11:42  Like getting the vibe of happiness.Lesley Logan 11:43  Yeah. And we're like, oh, I want to be around other happy people because like, and it's like, well, yes, but also, when you think of it as muscle as a skill, then it is something that you can get better at and that you can actually tap into like a like a second language, you might know you can like pick that out. Right? This is okay, so one of those tasks we could do to get better happiness skills is the celebration at the end of the day. I love that. Are there have you ever met someone who thinks that they're like, other people need their happiness training, but really, they're not recognizing that they too, you know, you know, the projector?Alice Inoue 12:15  Yeah, of course. And what's really interesting is no one can change unless they want to change, right? Like, no one, like people will say, well, can I bring my daughter to you? Can I bring my friend to you, she really needs you. It's fine. Bring them but they will not. It's that self-awareness that I have that power to change my life because we're so without that self-awareness, we blame and complain and it's like everybody else's fault. And, and tell someone's ready to say, You know what, I'm ready. I want this. And sometimes they want fantasies, right? So oh, they hang around the fairies and the in the unicorns and but then you come down to it, you're empty inside. So it's kind of like it has to be a self-directed thing. So I never, I always feel like you can't just shove a book in someone's face, they have to be ready. So you can give them all this information. Nothing will happen in one day, the paradigm shifts and then they they're ready. So I think you can't really can't really do much except take care of yourself. And the better that you can like, cultivate your own life and your own happiness. Let's call it the more you'll impact others to do the same. So yeah, it's hard, right?Lesley Logan 13:22  Be the change that you want to see, right.Alice Inoue 13:26  Cliche, but it really is like, sometimes I feel like you can't, you can't change the people around you. And if anyone bothers you or irritates you, they're really there to help you grow and move, move. You know, it's just that complete ownership of your life. And that's where I feel like you started having control over what's going on in your life.Lesley Logan 13:47  What are some of your favorite ways to take care and prioritize yourself? Because, you know, as you said, like, we have to take care of so we have to work on ourselves. So like, what are your favorite ways to do that right now?Alice Inoue 13:49  No, my favorite way, which is something that I've been really talking about a lot lately that I realized, have you ever heard, have you heard people say, I don't have time for myself, like I have work, I have my kids, I have this everybody needs a piece of me and I'll take what's left, but there's nothing left at the end of the day, the week or month. So my recent, funny you should ask, just recently, when I talked to my community and my people I said, you think of yourself like a client, put yourself in the calendar. Like I wish I had time to come on your podcast, why don't I have time to talk to myself, right? So we talked to everybody else, but we don't talk to ourselves. So what I do is, I block out time for myself. It's so simple, but it's so important because I am the fuel for everything I do say or achieve. So I know that to nourish myself is the most more thing. So that's how I do it. I actually schedule blocks of time and if I have to move it, that's fine, but I move it and I don't accept anything that's beyond what I want and everyone's doing the journey how to say no, draw your boundaries. And that's why we come in handy at Happiness U because we talk about how important you are Are as a source of your own happiness. So yeah, I think it's scheduling me into my schedule.Lesley Logan 15:07  Yeah, that's fine. You know, I love that you said this because I literally just told somebody before, on the recording, they said, oh, I'm not making enough time for what all the things I want to do. And I'm like, well, are they are the things you want to do on your calendar? No, and I'm like, the only way I get things done you guys is if it's in like, it literally is in my calendar. Like it literally says done for the day. Like as soon as we're done recording, it says done for the day. Why? So that I don't just like, oh, I have a couple more hours till dinner. No, I don't, I'm done for the day. I have, like, I have a block of time. That's like, free time. And it's not really free to do whatever. There's a list of things I can choose from in that block. So it's like, you can go for a walk around the block. You could read a book, you could lay in front of this like saying, oh, what do I want to do right now for me?Alice Inoue 15:56  Yeah, and you know, our moments today, right? This moment is seizing the next moment. So if we're always seating, busy moments, we never really get out of that busy life. So if we can see some moments, just some moments, and if you don't mind, let me just share one more thing. People have so much to do, right? So much you were busy, busy, busy. Now, if you don't have a deadline, and you are not taking downtime for yourself, what are you going to do, you're gonna get distracted, you're gonna pick up your phone, and all of a sudden you're on and you're gonna feel guilty while you're doing other stuff, thinking you should be working. And then you're just splitting your energy not taking a break. So if you're going to get distracted, take that phone, take that item, whatever you're distracted by, go and go. I am inspired to do this right now. Because you're not getting any work done anyway. She's going to be distracted and recognizing we live in a polar world up, down, left, right, hot, cold, sweet, sour night and day, we if we exhale, we're doing all this exhaling, we need to inhale. So it's like just recognizing we are human beings, like we need balance. And so if you don't create balance, your body will take it. It'll just take it and you'll get distracted and feel frustrated. Because you think you're not productive. not getting anything done. Yeah. Yeah. Take a break. Lesley Logan 17:14  You know, I know. Well, that's just it. Like I love the reframe. It's like, I'm inspired to be distracted on my phone right now. Like, just like, take ownership of it. And then you don't feel like you wasted the time because you chose to do it.Alice Inoue 17:26  Exactly, because you're doing it anyway. Just like your eat like you don't you're on a diet, you shouldn't eat chocolate cake. Oh, delicious, chocolate cake come, you're eating it, you're feeling guilty, I shouldn't be eating it, you're not even enjoying the beautiful, delicious cake. Because you're feeling guilty, then you feel bad, then you feel fat. And then like, what's the use, you're gonna eat the cake, eat the cake, you're gonna get distracted, be distracted, giving yourself permission for downtime allows you to be more productive, productive, and bring your whole self to the table. So the key is bring your whole stuff to whatever you're doing. Don't say should I should be exercising more, I should be cleaning my room. Because you're not you're doing something else value what you're doing. And if you say I should ask yourself why? Who says it's somebody's voice in your head. So again, it comes back to owning your life, owning your time you create your moments. And so I just find that sometimes we need to give ourselves permission.Lesley Logan 18:16  Yeah, I think so a lot of times, also permission to be happy. Right? I think that that's another there's a lot of guilt around happiness. Like if there's some I deserve it. Yeah, I don't. Or also, I shouldn't be happy right now. Because the world is like caving in on all of us. Alice Inoue 18:34  The world is going through so much chaos right now our economic turmoil, financial turmoil, all of the advent of AI technology, jobs being lost, like go on and on. So if we get too caught up in that, we start feeling like that's our problem. And if it is your problem, go out and do something about it. But if it's not your problem worrying about it is not going to do any good create good where you're at, you know, eat, eat good food, take care of your friends and your family. Like, it's just we have to bring our energy back. It's it's hard. It's very difficult, because there's a lot of worry and concern about the future.Lesley Logan 19:10  Yeah, I think that that's such a great point to highlight, like, if it is your job to solve that problem in this world.Alice Inoue 19:16  Well do something. Yes. But like, I there's no amount of things I could do to stop the failure of the bank. There's no amount of things I can do to stop the political agendas that are happening. And if I feel like I'm led to go march, go do something, I'll do it. But it's stuff that as I said, it's just like, it doesn't mean you don't care. It means you care enough about yourself to realize that this is not your journey. Your journey could be somewhere else and we all contribute to our journeys in different ways.Lesley Logan 19:44  Yeah, I think that's like, it's like, if you're called, I had a friend who because of you know, the school shootings that are happening, she's got children. I watched her like add to the things that she does in a day by like creating a group and getting a finding out what she can do in her computer. In her city, like she, like found out what she could do, she found people to help her do it. And she's doing it versus like talking about it with your friends every time you see them. And like just writing worry, it's like, it's like it's like, then then go do something or go vote for the person who can do something. But like you just lamenting over it is actually removing happiness and possibility for everybody around you throughout the whole day.Alice Inoue 20:23  Yeah, yeah. Can people say, well, don't you care? How can you just be so nonchalant? It's like, it's not like, I don't care. I just know that that's not, that's not where I'm going to place my energy. I feel like I can do more good here. So it's like choosing what you do during the day choosing it's that responsibility of what are you doing? And what is what you're seeing in alignment with what you're doing? Lesley Logan 20:44  Yeah, yeah, I understand that, you know, we, we've had people on before, who like talked about, like, charitable work. And it's like, because of like, how, like, there's so many things that she like, you pick one you're passionate about, you just go all in, and you know that like, yes, that other one needs it too. But like, you know, like, make the change where you can make it and then and give yourself permission to be okay with like that. That is enough. And it's and I don't say I would say that same as us. I don't say to be nonchalant. But it's like, we're no good to anybody treating ourselves like we're not good enough and not taking time for ourselves. You can't, you can't even be kind to the person you're buying coffee from, you can't even be kind when you're dry, you can't be kind of useful you're working with. So like, we do have to figure out a way that we can show up and make the impact we want to make and then give ourselves permission for not making an impact somewhere else.Alice Inoue 21:31  Yes, yes.Lesley Logan 21:32  What are your favorite go tos for giving yourself permission.Alice Inoue 21:37  I practiced it so much that it becomes a habit. And that's really what I think is so valuable about make your life better. So if you if you or someone came in, they said, you know, I just don't feel happy, right? So I just don't feel happy. I want to be happy. So I would say well, what do you want? You know, what do you want? And then they they want more time for myself? Right? Okay, let's find out how to make time. But I can't because of this and that then wait. So it's giving yourself permission. And that's all it is. And once you do it, that feeling of power is so freeing, in a sense. So if you if I if I would take an informal survey of what people want in life, I know there's scientific studies done, but just to the people I've worked with, people want love, they want peace. And they want they want freedom. And they want joy and happiness, love peace. And it usually comes down to when they come with a problem. These are one of the things it's like they want freedom from such and such. They want peace, they want love or they want happiness. So yeah, it is it's it's tough now right to, to kind of be feel valued. And so we have to always it's just the opposite. You have to look for exactly, why do you deserve and if people say I don't deserve it, you have to dig a little like, who says that? Like you heard that somewhere? That's not you.Lesley Logan 22:52  Right? Right. I they're like, it always goes back to getting to know yourself and like figuring out why you have the story that you have for yourself. Like who like who didn't do that? Who said that? And also like, I you know, I love it when you're like why do you want that? Oh, because I like keep going well, then why do you want that like just digging down a little bit more. But you know, giving yourself permission, you said you could do it so much. I think people forget, like, you don't have to give yourself permission to take a whole day off y'all. You just give yourself permission to take five minutes without your device, you know, or to like get up 10 Min. Like give yourself permission to read for 10 minutes before you start something else in your day. You know, like, I happen to love, like giving myself permission to play hooky. Like I'm like, I may or may not play hooky for hours, mostly tomorrow. And I'm really excited for whatever I decide there. But like, you know, there's something about it that can be really fun. And it is a it is a practice and it's gonna feel weird in the beginning cuz you're like, I'm giving myself permission to do nothing right now. Alice Inoue 23:50  Yeah. A have a really good one. Have you guys have you ever been working and then it's like, you have to use the bathroom, but you just hold it because you're like working. And then also you're like, Okay, I gotta go. And then you run to the bathroom. And then you're running back. So there's this thing that I've, that I started to do, because people said I'm too busy to practice mindfulness. So what you do is you have to use the bathroom anyway, right? So use the time from when you're at your desk to walk to the bathroom. And that's when you that's your mind. That's yourself time you breathe, you count the steps you feel the soap on the water, you smell it, you wash your hands. So you do it. You stay in that moment. And that gives your brain a break when you wash dishes instead of just going oh dishes yuck I hate it. Hey, this is self-time. Just enjoy the cleaning of it being that moment like it's just putting these moments of peace because we're in such a hurried hectic life sometimes and so there are times like that you can do it. You're walking from your office to the car, you're home to the car. Just these types of habits bring a bit of peace into your life because like I said, we seize the moment. So if we can seize the moment with some mindfulness, some being present Don't like just take 10 breaths as you're walking to the restroom and come back, I guarantee you'll feel better you're putting more oxygen in your brain, you've given yourself a break, you can be present, otherwise, we're scattered. And as you're scattered, you're not even gonna remember, like yesterday or last week, because you're gonna be like, Oh my god, I was so busy. I don't remember a thing about last year. And so if if life is meant to be lived, we have to live it and bring our mind into the present versus worrying about past and figuring out what about the future just like just be here because we're okay. Like, you're okay, we're all here. Okay, today, this minute, might not feel like it. But if we start seeing a little bit more, it starts to lighten that experience and expand like that time horizon.Lesley Logan 25:40  Yeah. 100%. While you're talking about this, I, I recall, like, I took a mindfulness training. So when I lived in L.A., I lived in a UCLA neighborhood, and UCLA has a mindfulness training, you could actually get certified in mindfulness. And I thought it was like a degree. And I'm like, cool, I should go do that. I mean, I didn't you guys, because you needed to go to three silent retreats. And that meant also no writing. And I was like, no writing, no speaking, like, Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I needed that somewhere. I gotta put my thoughts somewhere. So yeah. However, I did take some of the trainings just to like, preempt, like, get there. And one of the things I remember thinking, this is crazy, we were just taking me to freeze grapes. And then like, was the online class before COVID. Like, okay, you're gonna take one of your frozen grapes and put in your mouth, and you're gonna sit there and like, pay attention to it. And I was like, What in the world? And what is so funny, as I remember going, I've never paid attention to the grape in my mouth. Like, I've never paid attention to any like, or maybe I had one as a kid. But I'm certainly haven't done as an adult. And it was like, the simple things like, as you're saying that people might be going really what it's like, yeah, you don't realize how you're not even paying attention to when you walk down the hallway, you're thinking about what you left at your desk, or you're thinking about where you need to go when you get back? And it's like, what if you just walked to the hall? Like, what if you walk from your car to the door and just like, didn't think about anything, but suffer like, Oh, look at the plants or look at the sky or count your steps? Like the people don't realize it counting is a way of being mindful because you're not. So I love that one of the trainings I did when I was doing a habits training. He, BJ Fogg was saying, like, we all have things we do every morning, every afternoon, every evening, like it just happens, because those are like when your meals are also happening, but also like commutes. And he said, like, really look at count, write down all the things you already do without even thinking about it. Because you can place habits there. Like being mindful. Yeah. So like, you know, you know, you're gonna brush your teeth, you can be mindful while you're brushing your teeth.Alice Inoue 27:39  All of that. And it just takes a little bit of effort. But once it becomes a habit, it's something that really is like moments for yourself. So it's so it's so hard, but yet so easy. And that's what's interesting. Some people just say, I don't have time, I gotta wait until I finish everything else before I do something for myself. And the answer is you don't have to change your life relation that you can start doing stuff right in the day. And that really, it can be very profoundly.Lesley Logan 28:08  Yeah, yeah. What are you excited about right now? What do you what are you most excited about right now?Alice Inoue 28:12  Right now, what I'm really excited about is I created a psychometric system based on the Chinese five elements of wood, water, fire, all of that stuff. So it's these elements, and it's called, (inaudible) and I would I took these Chinese elements, and I personified them and made them into superheroes. And I know there's no video here, but like, I've created like, superhero characters around it. So it's an assessment that I created, wrote a book on it and everything. And it started becoming part of team building and corporate team building, and then your crazy series of synchronicities, McDonald's found it and so I'm able to, I've been able to, like, kind of see this thing and all it is, is about, about if you, if you take my assessment, it's like you take the assessment, it's like, there's a book, it's online, it's free. And anyway, you take the assessment and you come out with an archetype like I'm the intuitive luminary, you might be the spontaneous initiator. And so there's these 20 archetypes, but it shows you what your superpowers are, what your weaknesses are. So I guess right now, I'm really inspired in just up leveling that whole thing and licensing it and all of that, so that. Lesley Logan 29:17  Oh my god, that's pretty exciting. If McDonald's is like, hey, we want to do also like so cool to be able to partner with a company that can touch so many people in a way and maybe get them to think of themselves in a positive way. Like that's really cool.Alice Inoue 29:34  Yeah, so I felt like that's been really fun and other large sort of national organizations have picked that up and I'm also really excited of course about my Happiness U Hui because I've never done I was all such an in-person thing. Like I've been amazing. I'm like old school and you know, I'm a lot older than most people. So it's like being in person is the thing, but then because of pandemic, I wasn't able to keep that, that the space and so we went online and now it's super fun because like how you have on doing like this podcast, like, I get to do these little weekly things. And yeah, I'm actually really inspired by that. That's number two. And one more thing over the pandemic, I found face yoga.Lesley Logan 30:13  Okay, I read this in your notes, and I was like, I really do hope that she brings this up. So okay, I heard about face yoga, and I'm gonna be honest, I like I was like, I don't know that I wanted to come up through my feet. So I'm just not gonna Google it because then I'll get face yoga prompts, but I'm looking at you right now. And I'm just gonna say, I need to know what you're doing. Alice Inoue 30:30  Okay, so I turn 60 bext year.Lesley Logan 30:32  Oh my gosh.Alice Inoue 30:35  So I when I started, when I turned 50 I started noticing like that I was getting that square look, you know, it's normal for gels, nasal labial folds and all of that to come up. That's pandemic and then somehow I saw something on face yoga and I was like, huh, that's really interesting, but this is what it is. You have 57 muscles above our from our neck up. And if you think about exercise, we know to exercise your biceps, our glutes, our abs to stay healthy, but these muscles never get any exercise and they just drift so give that gravity they just falls your skin is stuck to your muscles so your skin droop you lose collagen elastin you start drooping about this five-minute yoga book. And I just started doing it watching TV. Like weird stuff, right? And then one day I was like, oh my God, my gels are gone. I'm not even kidding you. So you see my face right now.Lesley Logan 31:25  But I don't watch on YouTube y'all. We can see your face. Yeah.Alice Inoue 31:28  I don't have like flapping stuff. I used to jog and flap and then my eyes I used to have to like hold it up because my eyelids would bump on my eyelashes. So I was able to kind of lift my face naturally because the muscles on your face are so thin. A little bit of exercise it just kind of puts them in shape. I was so inspired I I got certified I started a face club I so I do I teach I teach face yoga I do it because I love it. It helps me and I just I just love it. So yeah, so it's a little bit odd. But if you do it correctly, it's not like I'm going to say it plastic surgery is great fillers Botox all that's great. If that works for you. That's totally great. Because it you feel you're gonna want to feel better. But I guess for me, I just thought it was kind of cool, since I do the organic stuff that you just like lift my space.Lesley Logan 32:15  I'm obsessed because I read it. I was like, okay, hold on. Let's see. And then you came on. And I was like, Okay, we need to do this. We should do it now. Because if I do it now just imagine what I look like.Alice Inoue 32:25  No, but you're so young. So the idea here is if you do it you prevent yourself from aging. It's really hard to reverse age. Once it's down you're fighting against gravity, but it can be done and it's it's inspired. So this is why when I used to look in the mirror, I would be like oh my god, another wrinkle elbows eyes like drooping. Now when you look anyone who does face yoga, we're investing in our face, we're putting time in so that one our practice, we breathe and we release tension and we massage we do all kinds of acupressure we do meditation at the end, so it's like a whole one-hour self-care hour. But now I bet everybody in that face club when they're going to wash their face. They're looking for improvements. They're saying oh look, that's better. And that's putting positive energy because normally you look at what's wrong when you look in the mirror like nobody goes like oh my god, how am I am so beautiful. It's like my eyebags you know.Lesley Logan 33:20  I love that you are saying it that way because I think so many people are like, Oh my gosh, Leslie, you too are getting like really vain but it's actually not it's about like looking at yourself and seeing what's going well and like looking and seeing positive things and and and also just another way to spend time with yourself. I love like I need to get back into (inaudible) practice but I loved like I got the add the act of doing it at night. I was like look at me taking care of myself.Alice Inoue 33:46  Yeah, you are you're actually actually stimulating blood flow and oxygen to your face from college in a lesson they need that in order to be strong. So yeah, so I think it's inner beauty and outer beauty are connected. It really is and that people said oh, your Happiness U Why are you still vain doing outer things? I'm like, No, I feel good about investing in myself. I don't care if I'm 50 6070 If I look the best that I can be at wherever I'm at. I feel good. You know? So yeah. It's just perspective. It really is.Lesley Logan 34:20  I think you're right. And I think it's also like it is the inner and the outer they kind of feed into each other. And so if you only say negative things about yourself outside, guess what's happening on the inside, so it's kind of like you're working at both ends. Oh my gosh, Alice, this has been so fun. We're not done yet. We're gonna take a brief break and then find out where people can find you follow you do face yoga with you. Okay, Alice, where do you like to hang out? Where can they? Where can they stalk you a little bit in the good way? Alice Inoue 34:44  Oh, that's just probably just go to the website. It's your like, yourhappinessu.com everything's on there yourhappinessu.com And if you are into like Facebook and Instagram and all that, like then I post all these little things. It's all wisdom stuff so in Facebook it's Alice Inoue I-N-O-U-E life guidance or on Instagram it's Alice_Inour we're going to start a face yoga on Instagram too. I just thought I should do that too. So you can practice some exercises. Lesley Logan 35:16  Yeah, I was gonna say do you have like any reels?Alice Inoue 35:18  Yeah, we do. Like yeah, you know, do you have a post underneath when after I show up on your podcast, we're gonna have this one like gif and then you know, I'll give it to you. And then you guys can actually do a facial the class on there's like a facial.Lesley Logan 35:31  Okay, I'll try I want that link. We're gonna put in the show notes. I'm going to do everyone who's listening. I would like you to tag Alice and myself when you have done your face yoga. Okay, you have given us so many great tips honestly, like really awesome tips. But before I let you go for the too long didn't read people for the people who just wanted what is something bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted step people can take to Be It Till You See It?Alice Inoue 35:57  Schedule yourself in. Get to know yourself again. So put yourself into your schedule and do what you want. Just give yourself permission to get to know yourself. Simply because when we first meet somebody and we fall in love, all we want to do is ask them what do you like? What's your favorite color? What do you do we want to get to know others. But sometimes I feel like we centered so much and others that we forget to center back on ourselves. And we don't even know what we want anymore. If I asked you what do you want to be happy? Like some people don't even know. So I would say actionable steps schedule yourself in get to know yourself again.Lesley Logan 36:33  Yeah, yeah, a little dating of yourself. I love that. You know what you can all get like those like top dating questions, you could ask them and then just ask yourself, I love that. Alice, this is so fun. I'm so happy that are paths have crossed. I just divine appointments like this is why this podcast exists. So thank you for being here and sharing your amazingness Thank you for listening. Let us know how you're gonna use these tips in your life. I mean, I really want to know because I hope this brings a little more happiness to all of us. And until next time, Be It Till You See It. That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. 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Lesley embarks on a profound journey from the captivating wonders of Cambodia to the relatable challenges faced after travels. Learn the importance of celebrating both big and small wins in the quest for work-life balance, the art of setting clear intentions, and the transformative power of allowing oneself to evolve. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How to handle bittersweet losses gracefully.  How setting specific intentions can help break unproductive habits.Why incorporate moments of surprise into your busy schedule. The importance of allowing yourself to evolve Episode References/Links:Mentions, Stephanie EderMentions, Selena Lowe  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates Mentorship Join us at our Cambodia Retreat - Oct. 8-13, 2023FREE Ditching Busy Webinar ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah Friday. Brad Crowell 0:00  Fuck yeah. Lesley Logan 0:00  Get ready for some wins. Lesley Logan 0:00  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:05  Hey Be It babe, welcome to the FYF, the last one of October, holy frickin moly, what a month. I spent most of it, not in the country. So it feels like I only had like a week. It's not funny. Like, if you travel, you feel like you like it's not like time stood still. But like you weren't home for so much of the month that you're like, Oh, I only had one week of October, which is not true. Time really stood still in Cambodia and I have some wins to share with you about that in a second. But first I'm going to celebrate your wins. So in Fuck Yeah Friday, this is a day that we actually take time to celebrate wins, especially the small ones, especially the incomplete ones. And of course, you can celebrate some big ones and I share yours you send to me and then I share one of mine. So this one is I'm Stephanie Eder, she is an Agency member and eLevate round two person. So here we go. Just spent 10 days on vacation and strange beds, and my back was really bothering me. Did the 50 Minute OPC reformer class for August and it feels so much better. I love the theme of balance because one side of my back always hurts. And it weighed me tune in to how I was working my body. Oh, I love that for first of all, I love that OPC helped you there, of course. But I also love that you took the time for yourself. So many people after a trip would just be like, Oh my god, I have to get back into this thing I have so much to do. I've got all these things to do. And you like took something for yourself, Stephanie, that is so cool. And you were able to really like tune into what your body was going through on one side versus the other. Lots of good information there. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm so glad you want a 10-day vacation. Good for you. Lesley Logan 1:34  All right, Selena Lowe from Agency said so the first win is a bit of a bittersweet win here. With my price increase, I lost a small group class that we're doing one time, one time per week, which of course I'm sad to see them go as I have been teaching some of them for a few years now. My win is the way I handled it by not completely freaking out remembering what LL tells us that we can lose the percentage of clients that we increase our rates by. When I read that, their message, it did hurt but I have to understand people's but I have to understand people's financial situation situations decisions. This particular group, I had a feeling that I would either get pushed back on the increase or they may go so it's not a complete surprise either they were getting a really good discount previously, which they actually were not aware of to keep things simple for me, I want to have everyone be on the same prices. So the second win is that I already had a client on the waitlist for that slot, and I filled it immediately. And I have a happy client that now gets her two sessions per week. That's amazing. I'm just gonna pause before I stray off for a second win so I want to highlight this, if you raise your rates by 5% you can lose 5% of your clients but you're making the same amount of money and you have less time so that gives you more time to find people to fill those spots. So it's actually really important you know that and it sucks when people don't like your rate increase but also it's work sometimes people are going to leave us and it's really going to be okay. And you never know, they come back. Lesley Logan 3:05  Okay, back to Selena's win, she has a second one. I completed my injuries and corrective exercises course study and submitted the exam questions papers for review. Fingers crossed, I passed. Third one, I just okay, I have to interrupt with her win again. I love that you're celebrating that you just turn the thing in Selena and you're not waiting until you pass to celebrate Fuck Yeah, that's amazing. Okay, third one, two weeks in a row. Now I have had good numbers to my prenatal yoga class and some great feedback from the participants feeling positive about what September will bring. Selena, thank you so much for sharing all three of these wins. They are huge. There's something for everyone here to see themselves in. I just love I love that you celebrate wins even before they happen. I also love that you're acknowledging how wins are happening even it feels like the doors closed on something that it actually opened up a door of a win. I love that. Lesley Logan 3:58  Okay, so here's, I have a couple wins. So I am not someone who unpacks after a trip I actually like I don't know what I do. I just like leave this I know what I do, I like leave the suitcase like just there. And at some point, I open it because I need my makeup out of there or something like that. But I'll just like leave it. And I don't know why I do this. I don't I don't know why I don't just unpack right afterwards. I want to be someone who unpacks and I decided on the way home from the trip that I was like visualizing myself unpacking the suitcase. After I greet the dogs. Okay I will come and greet the dogs, I'm going to come in, I'm going to shower and I'm going to unpack the suitcase. And I did it. I know that's so crazy. I'm an adult who flosses her teeth and does all these things. But like for whatever reason, I'll just leave the suitcase open with stuff inside for a week or like, especially here's why this isn't even bigger win I'm actually leaving in five days for another trip. So sometimes I'm like, oh, I'll just unpack it when I gotta pack it like I'll just like, I'm just like, I'll just do it at the same time. And it's like, no, I'm doing it and it feels really good. So some of you are probably like, Oh my God, how disgusting. You know, we all have our flaws. So the other thing that was really, really great about the trip is, I had a lot of things that I wanted to get done on the trip, like a lot, a lot of blogs I wanted to write I had a lot of things I wanted to do to make updates for this podcast for next year. And some podcast guests I wanted to invite. And I also had this lot pressure, but like, I had this deadline of like, okay, I was going to work on the next flashcard deck. Because ideally, I was supposed to do two decks this year, and obviously I did one. So, so I really like me, I had a week in Cambodia that was dedicated to getting all these projects done. And was talking to shout out to Green. I love her. She was like, well make sure that you have room for surprise in there and like for doing ever. And I said oh yeah, I will. I will. And I love that she said that, because I just made sure that every single morning I tried a different route to my favorite place to work because I could be surprised. And that the moment I needed a break, I was like, well, let's just go walk somewhere else and get a change of scenery and be surprised. And that was really fun because it allowed me to have some moments of just like, oh, what's over there? Oh, I wonder what's over there. Oh, I wonder what's over there and just like be in wonderment. And then when I got to sitting down to work like I had this like energy and excitement and creativity to bring to it and I'm really proud of all the stuff I put together and I can't wait for you to hear all about it. So anyways, I am so grateful. Lesley Logan 6:38  So here is your mantra. I will allow myself to evolve. I will allow myself to evolve. So what are these mantras for there for? They're for you to journal with, they're for you to percolate on, they're for you to repeat out loud five times. I always hear people like what should I journal? What should I journal? So, I just like Googled a bunch of fucking mantras and I'm dropping one in FYF every week just in case you need something you can use it all week long. You can say all week long if you want. so anyways, I hope that this wins week was really fun for you I want to hear your wins. I want you to send them to me. So I want you to share, shout them out loud from the rooftops. you are not bragging you in fact are allowing people to go wow I can tell people I'm amazing. Yes, you fucking are. Alright, so thank you so much for listening to this podcast. I can't wait for you to hear at Monday's interview. And until next time, Be It Till You See It.Lesley Logan 7:27  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. 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Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Recognize the importance of setting clear boundaries.Identify societal pressures and their impact on how we perceive and value achievements.Reflect on personal energies and the necessity of balance.Recognize the importance of respecting your partner's energy in the relationship.Episode References/Links:Waitlist for next Cambodia RetreatNovember in Chicago - https://beitpod.com/chicagoMentioned Yoko Episode on You're Wrong About Podcast  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. Get your free Athletic Greens 1 year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 free travel packsGet your discount for some Toe Sox using the code: LESLEY Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan  I just ladies want to highlight that your boundaries that you enforcing your boundaries is actually you being in your strong feminine energy. And there's nothing more you can do for the people around you. But be in that energy and enforce those boundaries. It will change all of your relationships. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It Interview Recap where my co-host in life Brad and I are going to dig into the evocative convo I have with Kelli Adame in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to that episode, feel free to pause this now go back and listen to that one and then come back and join us. Holy frickin moly. Brad Crowell  It was evocative. Lesley Logan  Is that how you say the word? Brad Crowell  Yeah, evocative. Lesley Logan  I'm great. I'm glad. I loved her the first time I heard her. I loved her more on my podcast. And we already have her scheduled to come back. So I hope you love her because she's coming back.Brad Crowell  I've really enjoyed the convo. I actually listened to the whole thing twice. Lesley Logan  Oh, I know. I was interested to hear what you thought about it. Because it's, I think it's interesting to talk about, it's worth talking about masculine feminine energies and like what those things are. And I think we also talked a little bit about like feminism and things like that. And like, a little bit yeah, I think first of all, ladies, we always have thought all this amazing power. And we've got to stop thinking we've got to fight for it. We just have to take it and then enjoy that we also have this incredible power. It's she's so amazing. I hope you allBrad Crowell  I thought it's very freeing because it was it kind of gave a permission structure to be both masculine and feminine. (Lesley Logan: Yes.) And like energetically and the fact that we actually are (Lesley: for both people) was interesting for me.Lesley Logan  For both and, and look the she was she was very aware that like she was talking more in a heterosexual relationship sense. However, this happens in same gender, you know, relationships and in different things. So I think it's really important to see yourself in the story, but it's true. Like I think a lot of people get a little confused on like, what is masculine? And what is feminine energy? And it's Yeah, I think even for myself, like I can do those things, too. And she's not saying you can't, she's just saying she's saying it when you're in a relationship, here's a way that can actually make the relationship work better. And, and also, it doesn't mean that you who's listening to this episode, who's deciding which energy you're showing up as has to be the one who's gonna do that work. The other person has to show up doing their work too and she talked about how she and her partner support each other. Anyways, we're gonna do this in a second. Today is National Transgender Children's Day, Fuck Yeah, way to go tell your parents all the parents out there who got a child who's going through that. You're amazing. You're awesome. I so glad to see them. And for those who want a different holiday today, it's also Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night so I hope you choose both. I hope you celebrate both that would be my ask of you but you know yeah. So there you go. We just got back from Cambodia. And we are going to be opening up the doors to our next Cambodia retreat in the new year so go to Lesleylogan.co/retreat and the reason you want to do that is because you want to be on the waitlist because the waitlisters get the best rate of the retreat. (Brad Crowell: They do.) and the public gets a different rate.Brad Crowell   And they also get first dibs so there's limited spots. Yes. Yep.Lesley Logan  And November I am going to be in Chicago you want to DM me for that link. There's all kinds of options, there's full weekend options I have a masterclass there. Also we're coming to that time of the year where you if you wanted to be in my mentorship program eLevate or if you're wanting to see about the tour we've got lots of info on that so just hit us up if you're wanting to know about eLevate if you're wanting to know about the tour, on our socials we've got all the things. And December we're going to be on our huge epic tour and our sponsors are working on an incredible prize and all these things so you do not, (Brad: Yeah, we're really stuffed.) you want to make sure you're getting the emails, you're gonna make sure that you are heading to one of the min stops we're going on. It's a 7000-mile tour so it's big. Brad Crowell  Yeah, 14 cities, y'all. It's gonna be big.Lesley Logan  It's huge. Babe, do we have an audience question before we talk about Kelli?Brad Crowell  Today? We do. So you were recently asked for your live YouTubes that you've been doing with Andrea Maida. You're asked by a by someone, what is the piece of Pilates equipment that you could not live without?Lesley Logan  Yeah, she had a bet with her husband and I fucking hope she made money I or got whatever the bet was. This is a hard question. And she and I both cheated. Because we're like, because I do think the mat is an apparatus, but I was like when we can get into the mat. A special mat. So I chose the one chair because I just the Contrology (inaudible) my fucking favorite. And because I could do the mat next to the chair. Do you have a favorite? You don't like the mat that I know. Brad Crowell  I don't I don't hate the mat. But ILesley Logan  Well, that's because, you know, you'd have to do it twice not because you know the rule. If you don't like something, it means you need it. So you have to do it two times.Brad Crowell  Oh, well, I was just thinking I'm so used to a yoga mat that it's really difficult to switch over to the Pilates Mat, because it feels like squishy compared to the floor. But (Lesley: You're on the floor.) I like the reformer.Lesley Logan  Oh, okay. That's cool. I love that good for you. If you have a question that you're wanting us to ask you just send it into Be It pod. We love to answer them. There's no question that's too small or too big. We love to do it. So make sure you send it in to us. Brad Crowell  Okay, now let's talk about Kelli Adame. Drawing on her education as a depth psychotherapist, Kelly offers transformative insights as a relationship coach. She's passionately committed to guiding individuals towards authentic connections and nurturing healthier romantic relationships.Lesley Logan  Yeah, I really was so excited about this. I thought it was really fun, because we haven't had like a be it till you see it in relationships. Really, especially like for those who are like, existing in one already. And soBrad Crowell  We had a sex therapist, but that wasn't quite the same thing.Lesley Logan  No, that's, that's, I think that's a little bit. I mean, they're they should meet. (Brad: Yeah, they should totally, totally connect.) Um, so this one really spoke to me the most because and shout out to Tasha, because she actually just posted recently when the time we're recording this about boundaries, that they're actually you can be kind and have boundaries. But she said this. Kelly said this part of being embodied in feminine energy is saying no, to what doesn't feel good. Ladies, did you hear that? Being you don't, it's not nice to do things that don't feel good. It's not nice. It's not good to like have no boundaries. In fact, you're more embodied in your feminine energy when you say no to what doesn't feel good. So you get to have really clear boundaries, it's actually crucial for your feminine energy. No wonder so many women are burnt the fuck out because they're trying to be liked or kind or people pleasing. And they've lost their boundaries. I've just like, fucking listen to that again. She said, it's, it's our societal conditioning of saying, Yes, we're so conditioned to say yes. And to just do it. But then we get resentful about that. Yeah, of course, because we're no longer in our feminine energy. And that's not fun to be in. And that results in resentment. And that's not fun.Brad Crowell  Yeah, I actually liked you know, the, under the breakdown of the difference between masculine and feminine energy and then effectively, like the actions that you are taking with one or, you know, not with the other. And I didn't realize that since, you know, all people can be are both have both are at different times, like leaning into one or the other. I didn't realize that effectively, the work, the working world that we know of, everyone's leaning into the masculine, masculine energy. Lesley Logan  Yeah, we're, we're all leaning in really hard. And then what's affecting is the people who do want to live in their masculine energy more, feel a little bit lost, because everyone's just like living in it 24/7 And we're not, it's like a dimmer switch or like, a on like, an open and closed office hours, we're not actually we blended our office hours to being at any time all the time. And so it's really about like, some when you work in the things that are masculine energy, like really leaning in that. And then when you when you when you're not supposed to be in the energy, like really owning your feminine or your masculine and, and honoring each other's energies because of that.Brad Crowell  Yeah. Well, and I think that ties right back into the boundaries, because, you know, I know that like, what what ends up happening is that we get stuck in the work mode, masculine energy, even when we're at home, like you were saying, especially because of work from home world now, you know, and then having a boundary a clear boundary of like, I'm allowed to shift gears. It's really hard for me to permit myself to shift gears because I feel like I have to stay in this, you know, work mode work, work, work masculine energy, and sometimes like shifting into relaxed mode or, you know, whatever, like creative mode when I shift into that, I almost feel guilty about it. But I think it's because I don't have a commute, like I used to have in my old job right, I had a hard break in my day, where I was like, super high, intense focus, focus, focus, putting out fires, and then I had my drive home. And when I got home, it was like, permission to shift. You know, so that's been really interesting, you know, working from home these past few years. Well, how do we create that boundary?Lesley Logan  I slowly lost my commute as well. You lost your commute even sooner? Well, I mean, I guess you had a long (inaudible).Brad Crowell  I'm not complaining about losing my commute. It wasn't my favorite thing I ever did. But it was a marker in my day.Lesley Logan  But it was like a really good like the switches turning. Yeah, yeah, you're correct. We need to figure out a new commute, in air quotes, because we're notBrad Crowell  Well, I mean, it's a little bit turned into cooking dinner for me. Lesley Logan  Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a good, that's a good commute. Anyways, I just ladies want to highlight that your boundaries, that you enforcing your boundaries, is actually you being in your strong feminine energy. And there's nothing more you can do for the people around you. But be in that energy and enforce those boundaries, it will change all of your relationships. And sure, you're gonna piss some people off, but you're gonna feel fucking good about it. That's what I love. Anyway, what do you love? It's okay to not be liked by everyone full permission.Brad Crowell  Yeah, it's hard for most. It's hard for me. Lesley Logan  Yeah. Same. But also, you know, some people don't like me, I actually don't like them. So it's okay.Brad Crowell  Fair, I really loved when she was talking about identity, and how we are inadvertently tying our identity to our achievements, because of the way that our society operates and how we were raised, you know, winning in soccer, or, you know, scoring a goal or getting a medal or getting an A on a test or any of that shit applying to colleges and getting in getting a job. All it feels like this achievement, like we've got this is achievements, we have to hit along the way of life, right. And so we taught, we end up tying ourselves to that, that mode of thinking, and then also the achievements themselves. And if something fucks up with one of your achievements, then now you apparently no longer have any value. Yeah, you know, like, we do that to ourselves. Lesley Logan  Oh, I was. I'm sorry, parents are listening. I know you are. Love you. But I distinctly remember them coming to pick me up at school and my progress report came out. And because there was some C's and some B's and some A's, but there were C's for the first time in my progress report, marching back to the teacher and being upset with me, because I had C's. And luckily, the teacher explained like where I needed to do some improvement. But looking back, it would have been nice if they had understood the the the effort in I was doing to get those C's and that the achievement of the A B's and the A's and B's don't actually reflect who I am as a human being, you know, and think like, I think I got paid for straight A's, I got paid money for that. So I was like, conditioned to achieve. And I there's good reason for that. Thank you, I got the fuck out of house, I'm good. But it as an adult, having to learn how to be a recovering overachiever has been a journey, because it actually doesn't fucking matter if we win at any of our goals, it actually does matter how I treat myself along the way. And having to be okay with not achieving has been really hard.Brad Crowell  Well, you know, she she talks about how the achievement, you know, culture basically, how it really affected her life, you know, because, you know, then you start getting a little older you start dating, and she said when she was starting to dating, it turned into like, you know, or I think it was her client actually was looking at her life and saying, you know, I'm, I've achieved all these things. Right? So therefore, I must be wanted, right by others. And so, Lesley Logan  And it's so interesting, because my clients in L.A., they're all these high-achieving women. And they felt like they needed to play down their achievements because people didn't like them so that made them feel like they had to hide their true selves. And I was like, Well, I think your achievements are pretty awesome. But I guess you don't like, when you when people ask you like, so what do you do? You don't feel like list off every achievement you've ever had. This is not your TED talk.Brad Crowell  Yeah. And she, I mean, you, too are joking about, you know, you know, you don't go out there saying, like, I'm looking for someone with six medals on their wall to date, like, right, you know, that's not what the that's not what ends up happening. No. And if that is what ends up happening, then you, you know, might not be the best situation. But, you know, the, I just thought it was interesting. Because I definitely know that I understand that, like, viscerally because when my band stopped playing, when I had moved across the country to Los Angeles to play in this band, and two years later, it stopped. And I was lost. I did not know what to do with myself. I didn't know how to introduce myself. Everything I was was Brad's in a band. And then, and then Brad wasn't in a band. So I was like, well, what's the fucking point?Lesley Logan  So interesting? Because it wasn't like, I mean, that's not to knock you. But it's not like your band was like, playing on the radio.Brad Crowell  No. So like, we were still getting our feet wet. We were trying to play shows and like music and stuff. Lesley Logan  Just being able to say I'm in a band. Yeah. Was like it meant so much to you. But more than that the band like wasn't actually doing the things you wanted to do. Yeah, because the band because when I met you, you were in a band. Yeah. And when we that was, like, third or fourth band, but yeah. And then we officially started dating. You quit that band? And I thought, oh, fuck did I cause this mi am I Yoko?Brad Crowell  Yeah, well, the whole band stopped. I mean, I think it was.Lesley Logan  Side note, I just wanted to say, Yeah, listen to you're wrong about podcasts about Yoko, because she did not fucking kill the Beatles. And we're not going to blame that on that woman. Because I'm tired of blaming women for things the men didn't get along. Brad Crowell  We'll get, we'll get a link to that episode in the show notes. Lesley Logan  The reason the Beatles aren't together is because they didn't get along. It's not because of her. Just defending.Brad Crowell  I don't know, that whole story. I love it. Well, anyway, you know, just the fact that we were kind of raised to do that. And so what happens if we shift out of that achievement? Performance, you know, gear, and then how do we define ourselves? Outside of, you know, I'm Dr. So and So who, you know, sailed around the world six times, you know, like, what if it's just like, you know, I'm, I love sailing, you know, and, you know, it's kind of tying those things together. And then, you know, it's the act of doing things instead of achieving the thing.Lesley Logan  Yeah, I think that's why I love Pilates so much, because, like, at least the way I practice it, and the way I teach it, it's like, it's actually not about, I'm a Pilates instructor. Or, like, I can do the long side massage, whatever. I love, every time I hit my practice, it is like I'm doing my practice. It's not. It's not a perfection thing for me. And it's a process, I get to process that I get to be in and get to be enjoying the journey of it. Yeah. And that doesn't mean I love it, that journey all the time. But I think that it's nice to have something that I'm that I am in, in the process of and not attaching myself to its performance. Anyways, it's pretty fucking awesome. There's so many guys, this is a really deep app, I really had a hard time ending the episode. So we don't even have enough time to recap every awesome thing she said, You have to listen to it. Brad Crowell  Yeah, go back. It's worth it. All right. So finally, let's talk about those Be It Action Items. What bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items can we take away from your comvo with Kelli Adame?Lesley Logan  Usual first?Brad Crowell  Yeah, sure. She actually she said, decide primarily which energy you want to sit in? Do you want to primarily sit in feminine energy? Or do you want to primarily sit in masculine energy. And then she said, understanding which energy you lean toward, can guide you in finding a complementary partner and foster a healthier dynamic.Lesley Logan  I I love this, because I think this really actually lends itself to however you identify yourself as a person and like, what kind of relationship you're in. Somebody gets to spend money in your romantic relationships, somebody gets to be in the masculine energy and someone has been the feminine energy and one of you, like, you have to respect your partner and one of the chair's like there's a giving and receiving that's happening. And if you want to be in the mass energy at home, that's okay. You can, but these are the things you have to do. So that the other person feels part of that relationship, and they have to receive it's a whole thing. So go listen to it because I really enjoyed it's a give and take. I mean, it's a back and forth, and well that's why that's why marriage can't be 50-50Brad Crowell  Well, yeah, and you were talking about this that like you were talking about the author drawing a blank. Is it temporary? No, Brittany, we're talking about oh, hey Brown, right? And that her example of like a different times of the day, even the ball shifts back and forth. Are they flipping? You know, back and forth?Lesley Logan  I'm like, this is the energy. I hate. I'm sharing about 30. Today, and like no problem, I can do the rest. But if they're both from the 30s, and they go, okay, so what are we going to do right now? Right? We don't hurt each other, kill each other in this relationship. And I love that becauseBrad Crowell  I didn't realize they were that like, like intentional about it.Lesley Logan  they're just I don't know that it's like, all day long. But like when they come home from their workday, because they both actually have a work day. And then they have a commute, and they come home. And they ask each other how they're doing. According to her interview. They say, like, Hey, I'm at a I'm at a 30 today, right? Got no problem. I'm having a great day. I'll take up, I'll pick it up.Brad Crowell  And well, I Well, I think that it's interesting to have noticed that in our relationship too, like, you know, when I'm having a bad day, you know, it's, I hope you can pick up the slack. And say, Well, yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Like, when you're having a bad day, I'm there to pick up the slack. And that, and that's how we will try to work together.Lesley Logan  And I love that Kelli said like she mentioned like she was having she was feeling something. And then her her husband, because he's aware of the work they are integrated is like, what do you what can I do for you? And she's like, here's what I need right now, which I think is really important. I think we don't spend enough time with ourselves to know what we need. And I think that's one of my bit my take away. But like so we can actually verbalize here's what I need right now. From the person that I'm in relationship with to give me that. The Tim Ferriss thing I don't know if I talked about in the episode with Kelli, but I distinctly remember this time when he was doing like a when it was tequila night q&a. And someone said, like, I've been single for a really long time. How, like, what, how do you find someone who's compatible for you? And he said, I don't know why you're asking me this. This is not something I'm really familiar with. But here's how I've seen it. If you take maths like a like a spectrum, and you put highly masculine on one end and highly feminine on the other end. And they're like polar opposites, then wherever you are on that spectrum, your equal opposite is actually gonna be the most compatible for you. And I was like, This is Oh, that's so genius. With like, Kelly, what she's saying, because I actually think that you and I are on weren't neither one of us is like, towards the ends of the spectrum, but we're in the middle either. And like, I feel like we're pretty compatible in that way. That's a that's a really fascinating and a cool visual. Yeah. Because if you look at it, like if you we have some friends of mine, right, like, we're like, they're like, those like 1950s like lovers, like where the girls like the pinup girl and the guys like very, you know, like greased lightning and like, yeah, they work together, because they're like, pretty much on the spectrum of feminine masculine, like equal opposites. You know what I mean? So, it's, it's, it's very fascinating to me how that that very simple spectrum works. And I think it goes along with what your Be It action item was, I'll go into mine. Yeah. What about you, because I kind of talked about this, she, she talked about learning how to identify and regulate your own emotions and feelings. And it's very valuable. And they're just as valuable as your rational thoughts. And so she said, really checking in with, like, what feels good to you? Does this feel good to me? So, and this goes with anything like if you've got a, we have people in our business coaching group where the clients are taking advantage of them? And they're like, I don't know how to do this, like, Well, does it? Does it actually feel good to you how that's happening? Right? Like, does that feel good? Brad Crowell  And then same with managing a team? Yes. Or you know, whatever. And thenLesley Logan  Once you've asked yourself, pinpointing your emotions like figuring out how you're actually feeling and this is really key because I think a lot of times we tried to like shove our emotions and and qualify them or change them or I shouldn't feel that way, no, like, how does that make you feel like today? Before I recorded this I was like, fucking feeling upset about something because it really hurt my feelings. Like just didn't feel good. And just verbalizing like what didn't feel good actually made things better. Yeah, but like just doing that and then given this which is that given that I'm feeling that way and sort the way you're feeling right there, what can I do to make myself feel better? And y'all if you haven't spent enough time with yourself to know what makes you feel better, then you've got some homework to do.Brad Crowell  Well, I mean even doing this is hard. Ah, because you have to be able to identify that and like stop the cycle first and then you ask yourself the question Does that feel good to me? And then you say why can right so you have to be aware enough to last kind of from an objective perspectivesLesley Logan  Yeah. And and also my perfectionist overachievers you're gonna get fucking wrong. You just are.Brad Crowell  You're never like, you're not like watching yourself on the side and all the moments?Lesley Logan  No, but I think like one of the I'm so grateful for the therapist I had a while back. Who made me listen a bunch of things that I thought would make me feel good about, like spending my time. Like, she's like, just make a list, like what would make you feel good. So I wrote like, of course, breathwork, meditation, like all the things that like, sound really good. And then I wrote down, like going for a walk. And I wrote rock climbing. I wrote journaling, and I wrote reading a book, and I listen to music, and I wrote down all these things. And then what I had to do is like, being conscious of when I was like, feeling like out of control and looking at my list and go, Okay, well of these things. I'm looking at this list that I made when I wasn't feeling like a crazy person. Have this list? What would make me feel better right now? What do I think that makes me feel better right now? Brad Crowell  So you actually have a list in front of you? Yeah. And you can refer back to it because in the moment, you're like, I can't remember.Lesley Logan  You need to do it when you're feeling good about yourself. Yeah, it's a great idea. Do it in the morning, when like, the day is your oyster. Yeah, you know, and like, make a list and then have that list handy. Have it on a card, have it on a note in your phone. And then when I was feeling that, I would look at the list and I would try out the first the first thing that made me think I would make me feel good, cool. And I was kind of myself if it didn't work, but sometimes just taking action, especially if especially any part of what you're feeling is fear. Just taking action really is shockingly helpful.Brad Crowell  Also, with especially with fear, like talking about it out loud, even if it's only you. Oh, it's really Lesley Logan  Go listen to Chris. Because it's it's important kind of crazy. How quickly taking some sort of action feels good. Anyways, Kelli's coming back. Yeah, that was great. She's phenomenal. Brad Crowell  You know. just there was really tough to pull out like, what to talk about in this recap, because there was just a lot there.Lesley Logan  Life changing. I hope I need to write a book. Anyways. I'm Lesley Logan. Brad Crowell  I'm Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan  Thank you so much for joining us today. How are you and use these tips in your life? What are you going to do? Are you gonna let your partner listen to this? I hope so. What a perfect person to share this episode with. You know, what you could do to make yourself feel really awesome right now is share this episode, it's going to be really great and you and especially if your friend needs to be in a receiving mode, they should receive that very well.What a great practice. Have an amazing day and Be It Tll You See It. Brad Crowell  Bye for now.Lesley Logan  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. 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Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How to boost marketing skills and pick the best platform.Why clear target audience definitions matter and ways to get direct customer feedback.How to prioritize visibility and set goal benchmarks.The benefits of brand partnerships and capitalizing on uniqueness.Cultivating a problem-solving approach and avoiding emotion-led decisions.Episode References/Links:Whitney Lee's Instagram - @thewhitneylee @truestorypublicrelationsWhitney's True Story Public Relations WebsiteTrue Story: The PR PodcastWhitney's LinkedInShe Who Wins Whitney Lee episodeGuest Bio:Whitney Lee is a marketing and PR strategy expert, the founder of True Story Public Relations - a 7-figure, award-winning agency, helping companies in the hospitality, products, and service industries thrive. Her superpower is her ability to help frustrated business owners who've tried it all, cut through all the noise and develop a custom strategy that actually moves the needle.   If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Join us at our Cambodia Retreat - Oct. 8-13, 2023Get your free Athletic Greens 1 year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 free travel packsGet your discount for some Toe Sox using the code: LESLEYBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  Just because we're experts, not every single thing we do works perfectly on the first try. Hello, I jokingly say like we're like little scientists, like we make a hypothesis based off of our education and our experience. And then we try out the hypothesis. And then we see what happens and we tweak from there. You know, like, it's okay, if everything you do, it's not going to, I'm going to go ahead and make that like clear statement, not everything you do is going to work on the first try. And most of the time, it's not going to work on the first try. But the difference is they're just people who push through and keep trying. Lesley Logan 0:00  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:04  All right loves, so today's guest I'm so excited about. First of all, I'm more excited than my voice sounds. I don't know why it's gone. Always gonna Be It Till You See It for this whole intro. I have one of my dear friends on her name is Whitney Lee, she is phenomenal. She's such a badass bitch. And I, I just love being around her. I love the conversations I have. I love how honest and vulnerable she is. And she doesn't, she's she, what I love about what she does in her life is that she doesn't take things that happened in her business personally, she really truly is like, let's look at the facts. And let's make these things happen. And I love that as an inspiration to all of us, whether it is a business that you're listening to this podcast for, or your or a personal goal, the things that are happening to us are not personal attacks on us. They are just interesting obstacles for us to get some information from and move forward. And so when you get to this part of the conversation, that's going to come about feelings, I hope that you stop, listen, rewind, pay attention again. She's fucking phenomenal. And and so today I had her on because I love talking to PR people because they are like an ultimate be it till you see it when it comes to business. But she also has such honest advice that you can use to create your own PR and be your own self. And if you remember from Hillary Heartlines episode about branding that even if you're not a business, you are a brand because it's how you leave people feeling. If you listen to that episode and this one back to back, babe, I think you're gonna have a great fucking day. So here is Whitney Lee. Lesley Logan 1:32  Hey, Be It babe. So I'm super excited. This can be a fun conversation with a friend. I'm so happy to have met. We have a lot of friends in common many who've you've heard on the podcast before. Whitney Lee, we actually met at She Who Wins. She has a PR company called True Story. And she's just phenomenal at what she does. But we met at the She Wins Conference, which is like a bunch of amazing women. And you're just I went to your workshop and you're just a delight about PR and making it so accessible. So I had to have you on because I wanted to share your amazingness with our listeners, can you tell everyone who you are and what you rock at? Whitney Lee 2:28  Hey, friend, thanks for having me. My name is Whitney Lee, So, my company is True Story. We've been in business about 10 years now. So we do a lot of PR we also do social, social media paid and organic. We do a lot of email funnels. But honestly, like, at the end of the day, what I would say our superpower is is like business owners are so overwhelmed with all this crap that they see. Should I be doing email marketing, text messages, Google ads, billboards? Should I have my own podcast, they get so overwhelmed with all these different, I should be doing this to promote my business, we help kind of like, bust through all of that and just say no, no, here are the things you need to focus on. And let's crush these things. So for some clients, we're actually their team, we're the ones executing for them. And then other clients, especially some of the smaller businesses that we work with, we just build a plan for them. And we teach their team how to take it and run with it. SoLesley Logan 3:26  Freaking so cool. I mean, like, I love, there's a lot of things I love, first of all, 10 years is an it's like a lifetime, in a in a business like that. Not everyone makes it to 10 years. So congratulations. That's humongous. (Whitney: Thank you.) but also, what an interesting 10 years it's been to be in the PR industry. And like I imagine the things you guys have had evolved to do because PR has changed so much. And just these last 10 years, you know, going from like doing the, you know, death sides and all the different things with the magazines to actually like we can create our own PR without using any of these outlets. So what muscle you had to learn?Whitney Lee 4:05  Oh my gosh, well, you know, I always say like, you know, some people go to school to become this or you know, like a nurse or this or that. And once they learn the skill, they have it forever, right. But like, this is the one job that I see that like, if you don't continue to learn, like you'll literally be out of date in three months, and you'll just be clueless. So it's like continually pushing us to like learn new stuff and to stay on the edge of everything. But I mean, that's what makes it fun, right?Lesley Logan 4:32  Yeah, yeah. And I think like, what you just said, might someone be like, Oh, my God, you're right. If I don't do this, in three months, I don't even know how to use that app anymore. And it's like, what's so great is you're like, hi, we actually will tell you if you need to use that app. We we've done the stress for you.Whitney Lee 4:48  Yep, and half the time that's what we see is like people that are doing all the things but they're just in the wrong places. It's always one of two things like they're either putting their message out in the wrong place and they're actual their people aren't in that in that zone like you're, you're doing, you know, social media, but you're, you know, Avatar is a 65-year-old man. Okay? You missed the mark. So they're either in the wrong place, or they're just saying the wrong thing. And people aren't clear on what they do or what they serve. You know how they serve some. Lesley Logan 5:17  Oh my god. Okay, so yes, I love we just dove right in. So I want to highlight it's true, a lot of people are in the wrong place for the person to hear them. Or they're in the right place, but their messaging is wrong. So half, I guess, like, how, how do people the obvious thing is like, just go where people are, but like, how do you have to, how do you find where people are? Like that's so people, it seems like people are everywhere, and everyone's on Tiktok, but actually Tiktok is not for everybody business to be on, like, let's just be real. So like, how do you find out where people are?Whitney Lee 5:50  Oh, my gosh, well, I think it just comes down to like, being really clear on who you serve, you know, if you serve moms that are between the ages of 30 and 45. Like there's so many demographic information out there that can tell you like where those women are, you know, and also like, I'm a huge believer in just asking people, like, you know, asking the people that you're already serving, like, how they heard about you where they found you, sometimes it is literally that simple. I think I just tell people, I'm like, you have to remember that, like, customers, and consumers don't think the way we do as like marketing and PR people. For example, like we used to have a functional medicine practice. And people would go in and we train their front desk, people to say, How did you hear about us? And all the people would always say, Oh, well, Google, Google's had heard about you. But that's not necessarily true. What it is, is that they saw the billboard, they saw a social media ad, and then they Googled to get the phone number or the address in their mind. Oh, I found you on Google, because they found your phone number on Google, but they didn't. What we're trying to get to the bottom of is like, where did you first hear that we existed? You know, like, where all of a sudden, did you hear about us originally? Not where did you get my phone number or my address? Yeah. Did you originally hear from me? It was at a friend that told you about it? Did you see my billboard? And then Google me like sometimes it's kind of hard to get into the brain of a consumer.Lesley Logan 7:19  Yeah. You that's, I mean, like, first of all, I love that you're just like, I just ask people like, it's, it's that simple. But also like, really making sure the question is very specific, like, where did you first hear about me? You know, that actually, like, I was like, we were doing all this stuff. Just trying to get more people to hear about our online membership for Pilates and everything. And finally, I was just like, everyone just finds us on YouTube. What are we doing on YouTube to make it actually better? Because if everyone's following us on YouTube, and then they're somehow making their way to Instagram, and then they're somehow making the way the list? What if we just like shorten that up? So we've made YouTube our bigger focus versus like, other any other social media platform, they're there. They like, definitely highlight the experience in there and additive there. But like, it's like doubling down on where people actually find you. The first time is going to be for us, I think, the most effective use of our time. Whitney Lee 8:12  Well, and I would love to know, well, here's the kicker, too. If someone truly did find us on Google or find you on YouTube, I would say what did you search? (Lesley: Ooh, yeah) that is kind of the key. And then they're like, Oh, well, I was searching like, I was looking for this one Pilates machine. Or I you know, I went to a class and I didn't understand this machine. So I got on YouTube and typed in reformer. And then you'll start to learn like, what are the words? What are the words? Lesley Logan 8:39  Oh my gosh. Whitney, how did you even get started in PR because everyone's gonna kind of like people love to know like, what's the journey? Like, were you like growing up? Like, oh my god, I'm gonna be Emily in Paris or Okay, so but like, what was the, what was the step? What was the journey?Whitney Lee 8:59  I'm about to go throwback here for a moment before Emily in Paris was even born, okay. We were all watching Sex in the City, right, in like the 90s. And they are like (Lesley: Oh my God, yes. Kim Cattrall's character.) Yeah, of course. Yeah. Samantha had her own PR agency. And it's so funny because I say like, that's what people think we do all day. Like, I just wear these fancy bright colored fun business suits. And I just flood around town and drink martinis. And I go to parties every night and I just meet people and that's my job. Like, people think that's legitimately what PR people do. No, honestly, like, I really don't know how I got into PR specifically, I went to school for communication because it was really broad. And I was like, I know I could take that and do that with a lot of things. People used to tell me all the time that I should be like a news girl. (Lesley: I could see that.) What's funny is I ended up I did end up hosting my own show like my own, like local news show for several years, but it, so I got into communication because I really didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. And it just kind of spiraled. Actually I went, I did grad school I did undergrad at Southern Miss. And then I did grad school at Florida State and one of my professors, he was a PR consultant and like, his clients were like Cindy Crawford. And, I mean, he was like, 70 years old at the time. So like, and also I was in grad school, like over 10 years ago. So he's much older. But he represented Cindy Crawford, that was like his biggest client. And he uses, he opened my eyes to what the heck a consultant was. And I was like, that's so cool. Just the idea that he had all these different clients. So one day, he's talking literally about Xerox machines, and helping Xerox get their name out there. And then the next day, he's dealing with Cindy Crawford, you know, like, it was just so interesting. I know, right? It was just so interesting to me that like, you didn't just go to a desk and sit there all day and like, crunch out, you know, information. So after grad school, I got my start in the hotel world. And that's really honestly kind of where the agency leans most now is like, just from my connections in that world, as a lot of hospitality clients, a lot of people think hospitality and they think hotels, but like, it's a lot of food and beverage. So we have like a group of Indian restaurants. We have a chain of burger joints, we have several different hotels, we have a huge shopping center. You know, and we also have a medical marijuana practice. So like, it's pretty interesting. We're I, you know, for the most part, we have a lot of hospitality clients, but we do have, you know, a few other, you know, we've done retail, like clothing lines and things like that. So it's really fun. And every day is different.Lesley Logan 11:45  Yeah, like, there's not a day that's the same. So yeah, maybe sometimes you're at an event living your Samantha life, but most of the time, you're like in an office, trying to help people get their message out there. That's really what Whitney Lee 11:57  Yeah. And really, like I said, you know, people think of PR, and they like don't even get it. They think it's like, Samantha out giggling and drinking martinis. But the whole if I had to sum it down into one word, like PR is visibility. (Lesley: Yeah.) Like, how do you get your name out there in a creative way, and get it to the right people with the right message. And, and people always think that marketing and PR are the same thing. They're totally not. (Lesley: Right.) Like marketing, the point, the goal of marketing is sales, the goal of PR, is visibility, more followers, you know, like, more clicks more, you know, that's the point of PR. So I have to tell all of our clients coming into it. Like, you're not sometimes you're not going to be able to equate, like, Oh, we got a feature on the Today's Show. And then you're not going to overnight, sell a million dollars worth of products, like, sometimes that will happen and we've had that happen for clients, not necessarily to the date. That's Today's Show. But the whole point of PR is to consistently stay out there in the right light, you know.Lesley Logan 13:06  Well, like, you're right. So like, I got, I got a call in 2013. It was like, hey, congratulations, your Los Angeles best Pilates instructor for LA magazine. Like we we chose you. And I was like, Oh, I thought people paid for that. I thought someone's be our first and got them that gig. And they're like, no, no, you you're it so we're gonna put you in this thing it's in the best best issued cup of this party was so fun. And I had people go oh my god, you're in yet so many clients from this you guys. I'm gonna tell you right now. I got zero. I got no client, however, but you know of that I know that I know of. You're right. You're absolutely right. However, I do know that I got to say last I'm like, I'm best voted Best Pilates instructor in Los Angeles by the LA magazine, the PR that came from that the the there's like notoriety. There's some there's some stuff that we can use from that. But it wasn't it's not like the marketing that I do where like we actually like I intentionally promoted my classes, you know, where that would be the difference? In the two things right there. So I, I guess I want to know, I'm very curious. Because it takes a special person to do a job, where every day is different. And everything that you do, doesn't exactly like always look like what you did here, equated to this over here. So you show up every day, and do this amazing, very essential job for people knowing that like you're kind of having to sell yourself to them all the time. Because for especially for a small business, it's not it's a lot of money for them to consider. Like I wanted to hear this answer just because I think a lot of people don't realize like everything that we do is like selling our dream to the people that are around us. So um, you have a very unique job or you have to do this all the time.Whitney Lee 14:53  Yeah, and it's just always being creative. So I think you just have to what I remind our clients is like we call them benchmarks, right? Like in in marketing, it's like your benchmark is like, how many click throughs did you get how many sales? Did you get? What was your return on investment? Like, how much did you spend on the ad versus what did you sell in advance? Or what did you sell, but PR, I think we just have to create different goals and stay on, on track that, like the goals for PR are just different. You know, the goal is to establish yourself as an expert, right? That's what that that award did for you. It's an immediate, like, people are like, wow, I'll give you an example. So we're working with an international client that sells I would say like party supplies for the most part, so they have like party and like they sell like gift bags and and notebooks and markers and pens and things like that to like Joanne and Michaels. So their social media and PR, our goal is not to sell more markers. Our goal is to get their name out so much that the buyers for those companies are like, whoa, have you heard of those new glitter pens? Like they're everywhere, they're listed here, they're listed there this influencer's using them, like we need these glitter pens in our store. So like, it's a totally different, you know, like, not a single one of our social media posts is going to be like, buy this pen now. Link in bio. No, the whole point of it is to elevate and get people talking about that product so much that the buyers at Michaels, the buyers at Hobby Lobby are like oh my god, I keep seeing this stuff everywhere. We have to sell these, we have to sell these.Lesley Logan 16:39  Right because like, I mean before the pandemic I used to hear would take seven to 17 touchpoints before anyone click on anything. So now that's like probably, it's probably like 35 So you're like just like being everywhere, omnipresent with a product or a mission or a restaurant so that people go oh, that thing I need to have that thing. Let's go get that that thing.Whitney Lee 16:59  I've or it's like a qualifier. You know, like when somebody thinks about your business or whatever, they go scope you out, right? That's the first thing you do is like when someone hears about something, they Google it, and they're like, Okay, I just need to scope this, this brand or this business out. So they probably Googled you and they're like, damn, okay, she was LA's top, she was L.A. what was it?Lesley Logan 17:20  L.A.'s Best Pilates instructor in Los Angeles. Whitney Lee 17:22  Yeah, she was L.A.'s Best Pilates Instructor and immediately in their brain, you are legitimate. Yeah, whether what's sad and some of it you have to be careful because some of this PR stuff can be totally fake, is that somebody could pay for an award like that, that unfortunately, that does exist. But it's an immediate qualifier in that person's brain, whether they know if you paid for it or not. You know, they're the immediate qualifier is like, she's legit. You know, and so that's a lot of, you know, PR's like reputation, visibility. Okay, I haven't heard another so partnerships and sponsorships. We do a lot of this. I saw recently. Okay, so Skims has bathing suits, right, anybody who's out there listening, Kim Kardashian's brand Skims, they do bathing suits, and they just did a partnership with Body Glove if anybody remembers Body Glove from the 90s remember the baby suit brand that has a zipper all the way (Lesley: Yes, yes.) So the body gland body glove has kind of been out for a while right? It was a thing in the 90s and it was cool back then. But it's not really super relevant now. Well, whoever is their freakin PR person is a genius because they went to Skims they got a partnership with skims skins is all hot now. And I guarantee Body Glove is going to be a thing again now. It's like this whole partnership is blowing up they did a collab and now it's like Body Glove suddenly is back on the scene. (Lesley: Yeah) and I guarantee their whole brand is about to be revived. Just thanks to like this collab that they did you know. Lesley Logan 18:56  So and so I love this because the what you're you keep focusing on is like, being out in front of the people with the with the with with what you're doing and not trying to sell to them just trying to be like show almost like show off like show off how these glitter pens work like show like, oh, look (Whitney: Show who they are.) Look how cool Body Glove is. They're friends with Skims, you know, like that kind of a thing. So, I guess I want to say like, I talk a lot about collaborating. When we business coach. I'm like, just like you've guys have no idea how many clients I got by teaching at NARS. Like, who would have thought NARS NARS big makeup company like oh, yeah, you can come teach Pilates in our store. But we did I did it all the time was so much fun. And because my clients while I was like my, my client, my lady, she wears makeup like, right like she's gonna be at the cool place. So how do you work with? How do you consider like, who to collaborate with? Is it always like who's the hottest on the market? Or is it more like what's what are you guys? What's the criteria you look at to make sure someone's a good partner?Whitney Lee 19:59  Exactly what you just said, so like, you know who your woman is so well, right? You know, the woman that's doing Pilates. And you also know that she's a makeup girl, you know, she's probably also a hair girl and a nails girl, like, you know, you know who your person is. And all you have to do is find other brands that they are that mean, that's like literally a perfect example and other brands and other products or other services that aren't competitive to you necessarily. But you know that that person also uses that, you know, so like, gosh, if I was Lululemon, I would be out partnering with some mom brand, every mom, you know, they're all wearing Lululemon, you know, like, go out and partner with some mom brand of anything. I mean, I'm not a mom. So I don't really necessarily know all the brands and businesses that moms use, but done that that's a great partnership right there. So I think it just goes back to like being clear, really clear on who your person is. And not just how they use your product, but the other things, the other aspects of their life. And then you hit them in those other angles. And just like you said, it's so key is like, it's not all people don't want to be sold stuff all the time. Just show up and serve. And, and let them meet you and see who you are and see your personality and see what you stand for. And the people that align with that will immediately be drawn to you. And I guarantee they'll be even more drawn to you by the fact that you didn't try to cram something down their throat.Lesley Logan 21:31  Yeah. So something that I I'm, I know that like some of our listeners, we think it's like, yeah, I get that guys, but like, I'm, I don't know that what makes me like uniquely different like we have, there's this thing about our women, a lot of women, they have a hard time identifying their unique differences. Is this something that you talk about with the businesses that you work with? Like, are there key? Are there things that you look at? You're like that makes you different than you know what you can't read the label inside the bottle, so you can be a fairly confident person and still go. I don't like to be different from these people over here.Whitney Lee 22:03  Yeah, I don't know if you are the one who taught me that saying I literally said that on another podcast like a week ago about like, you can't see the label inside the bottle. And they were like, That's genius. And I was like, I can't take credit for that because someone else told me that. So I don't know if it was you. Lesley Logan 22:19  But someone definitely told it to me too, because I was probably in a moment where I'm like, I don't understand it like well, you can't read the label inside the bottle. So it's a good saying everyone should like remember it. Whitney Lee 22:29  Yes. And now I totally forgot. So we were talking about Lesley Logan 22:32  Oh, like how to figure out like what makes you uniquely different for the person who's like stuck in the bottle. They're like, also they're like imposter syndrome. They see like these other brands over here like what makes me different than them. It's so funny to me. I'm getting inside my own question, but maybe this will help. In my neighborhood. There are four coffee shops, locally owned coffee shops, four of them. They are two across the street from each other. The other two one is down the street, one block and the othe's around the block. So like to me these four business owners are like there's enough there's enough to go around we can each have a coffee shop and they're all different like one a little bit more Cuban one definitely is like a bit more like a like a Dunkin Donuts it's a little clinical and there it's like not super exciting. Then there's one that like they are their signature latte is cardamom or the other one. The signature latte is Rosemary. Right? It's very strange. One is very hip to working. So like they eat for like, how do I be uniquely different person we all are? They're all doing lattes. Yeah, but they all are serving a different clientele. One is very hipster. One is very punk. One is very businesslike. Right. So I think that that's really easy. They can totally highlight who they were talking to. But when I work with people who work for themselves, they are their own business, I find that the hardest thing to get them to understand is that there's a unique difference to them. Because it's all like they it's almost like they're bragging or something like art, something like that. So I'm just wondering, like, how do you highlight? Or how do you figure out what that is to highlight with this with someone? Whitney Lee 24:00  Yeah, and you know what we talked about this sometimes in brandbuilders group too of like, I'm not the first PR person to ever exist. But there's something different about the way that I deliver it, or there's something different about my personality or my angle or my way of thinking I watch Shark Tank all the time. I'm such a nerd. It's just so interesting to me. And I felt like I learned so much about business. So Mark Cuban used to say like you're either the first, you're the best, or you're different. So am I the first PR person? No, not never. Am I the best? Well, of course we all think we're the best and unless you have an award, you know, if you have an award, definitely put that out there to show you're the best but if you're different, how do you portray that you're different and I think even some of that can go back to like talking to the people that you serve now. Like what made you pick me over some other PR person or you know, and also just really getting to know like what is your superpower? You know? So for me, what I like recognizes is that I think my superpower is like taking things that are really complicated. And making it super approachable and easy for people to understand. You know, even like when I spoke at She Who Wins, like, when I speak in front of people, it's not my, my goal was not to make everybody in the crowd think I'm smart, Ooh, hoo, cool. My goal is for everyone in the audience to like, walk away with something that they're like, Wow, I can actually do this or like, Wow, it's really not that complicated. So I would say that my superpower, again, there are so many great publicists out there. But I have such a good way of making things so simple for people where they don't feel stupid, they don't feel overwhelmed. They know exactly what the point is. And it's simple to them. So you know, again, sometimes it's not always the service that you're doing is different. It's your way of thinking about it, or your way of delivering it is different to people. And some people just jive. You know, like, you know, some people meet me and my personality, either totally jives with them, or it totally is like, not their thing, you know, and sometimes it just boils down to like personality and connection. Lesley Logan 26:14  Yeah. I really like that you broke down like you're the first year the best or you're different. I think like that is that's an I've really highlighted because like, not the first place instructor. Yes, I was the best in L.A. for who they and I did not buy that. I was like, I really did think that people like pay for those things. And that issue, maybe people do, but they actually did come to my class. I looked at my receipt and was like, Oh, this is the person. Okay. I saw the email. I was like, ah, but I'm not. So yes, maybe voted the best. But like, I'm a classical Pilates instructor, which means I teach the same exercise, it just applies to it. So here like, I like how do I differentiate myself, in a world where like, I literally am teaching the same thing that someone has been doing for for a century, right? So so so I, you know, in our companies, we make things colorful, we're very much about being not being perfect. And then we use, we use like, 80s, 90s stuff, like we make ourselves extremely different than what was perceived for the longest time. It's like a classical Pilates world, which is like everyone wears all black. Everyone's a dancer. Yeah, no offense to the dancers, or people who wear all black, it's totally fine. You can be different that way. But for us, it's how we differentiate ourselves. Because it was the only way to stand out in a market where like, there's people who like, clearly have been teaching this for 30, 40 years, so I'm not gonna ever I can't compete with that.Whitney Lee 27:37  Yeah, yeah. And you're not the most experienced, you're, you know, and sometimes it also comes down to like, the way you package or price things. It's hard. Sometimes it's hard for me to like make generalities, because we don't know the people listening to this about like, what business and industry they're in. But sometimes it can be the pricing, maybe you are the most luxurious and the most expensive, you know, or maybe you are the most cost effective. Or maybe you don't make people commit to X amount of time. Maybe you I mean, there's like so many different differentiators. So I think, you know, I think it's people have mixed feelings about looking at their competitors. And I don't say to look at them to spy on them or copy them, but look at them to see how they're structuring things and to see you something many times you will immediately see how you are different than them just by looking at what other people in the industry do.Lesley Logan 28:28  Yeah, well, I mean, like, if you look at Dry Bar, right? In the industry, she was in, everyone went for a cut, color and a blowout, like you didn't just go for a blowout. So she's like, well, we're just gonna do blowouts, like, that's all we're gonna do. Like she differentiated in that way. There's like places where normally people have to do memberships. So there's been businesses where they differentiate, like, you don't have to do a membership, you can pay a drop it like we that's how we're different. So I think it is like looking at them to understand what they're doing. And then figure out like, how you how what you the way you offer it, the way you package it, like you said, is the most unique thing. And then, and then like what we hear from our coach would be (inaudible) deal it's like and then exploit that in the goodness of others.Whitney Lee 29:05  Yeah, exploit it and talk about it and share it because to someone out there, that is a different that is a defining factor, or that is something that's going to cause them to take action. Lesley Logan 29:18  Yeah. Yeah. So Okay. Um, when you were starting your own PR company, which is a very big deal, like, I mean, it's not the easiest thing to start your own company. Was, was there ever. Was there anything that you had to like, tell yourself or is there anything that you did to like, make it easier for you to show up every day and be new at something like how it was the beginning days, 10 years ago for you?Whitney Lee 29:40  Oh, my gosh, I remember making my own website, and I felt so dumb. And I was like, oh my god, this is so homemade. You know, we're very critical of everything we do ourselves. I was also really young. I was in my 20s. And I remember going to like chamber events and young professional events and people would ask me what I would do and I felt so stupid, saying like, Oh, I'm Whitney and I do PR. Like, I had to, like train myself with my little elevator speech. And I used to tell myself all the time, like, people my age were like, oh, cool, okay, you're trying to do your own thing cute. But people like older people, I kept telling myself like, they don't take me seriously. Like, and sometimes it was because the things that people would say to me like, Oh, you have your own company. That's so cute, like a little Facebook company. Or people would call me like, Oh, she's a little Facebook girl. That's a, that's what she does. And I'm like, No, that's not at all. I mean, that's a part of what we do is social media strategy, but like, don't call me the Facebook girl, you know, like, but over time, like I just my, like, impostor syndrome for a while, would like tell me like, people don't take me seriously, because I'm in my 20s. Like, someone for some reason I thought someone in their 20s can't own their own business. So when I turned 30, I finally was like, Yeah, people are gonna, like, respect me now. And like,Lesley Logan 31:06  That's funny the stories we tell us now that I'm 30. Now they'll respect my business. Change overnight. Whitney Lee 31:12  Yeah, suddenly, I'm 30. So I'm legit, like, but also like, I needed to look back because they were hiring me in my 20s. So obviously, if they signed a contract with me and gave me money, they took me seriously, right? So I always tell people, you got to, like get out of a space of like, operating based off your feelings all the time. And you just got to look at the facts, you know. And, I mean, I'm not saying not to have fields and all that kind of stuff. But like, especially as women, we most women operate based off of emotion and how they're feeling that day. And I am kind of a little bit of the opposite. And the fact that like, when I think or feel something, I immediately start looking for facts to prove or disprove what's happening in my brain. You know, and I just was grasping, yeah, I try to grasp on to the facts instead of feelings, because we're gonna have all kinds of feelings, I'm feeling hungry, I'm feeling tired, I'm feeling jacked up from all this caffeine I just had, all those are just feelings, and those are going to go away within a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, or whatever. But like facts are facts. So you've got to and I even say this about the business, like we don't operate our strategies, we don't come up with strategies off of feelings. Like I feel like this is a good idea for you to do this partnership. No, I look at the facts of like, who is their audience? Who is their database reaching? Oh, their database is reaching women that do this, this and this perfect that that is a good partnership. So like, we gotta get out of the space of like, get out of our head sometimes and stop operating off of feelings. And like, sometimes we'll come up with facts. Those aren't facts, you know what I mean? Like, look for the true facts. And and you got to, you know, just be self-conscious, aware, you gotta be aware of your thoughts enough to know that they're just thoughts.Lesley Logan 33:05  Yeah, I really, really love what you said there. I think, like, rewind, and listen to that again, like, because I do, I think, like, obviously, there's gut instinct, or there's like this intuition. That's really amazing. But especially if your feelings are like, Oh my god, I'm not good at this. It's like, hold up, now you're gonna start making posts, or you're gonna start doing this, or you're not gonna do anything at all based on this feeling. And your business is going to suffer or you're going to attract different people than you want it because you use your feeling instead of going. Actually, fact are even when I was 20, and feeling impostor syndrome, people are giving me money. So I must have been pretty fucking good. Because people did that. So I can't go off of the feeling like, Oh, I'm just this 20 something PR person, I have to go off of the fact that like, no people paid me to do it. So I was good. You know, so I really liked that. Because I always have this Fuck Yeah Friday thing where like, here at the podcast, I share people's wins. And then I share a win of my own, and I would love people to have a Fuck Yeah every day. Maybe we'll make a journal everyone because I think if you like put your wins of the day in, right you like actually keep track of things. You have facts to go back upon. When you're having those feelings like this isn't working, nothing's working. I actually go back and look like I look at our analytics for the website, traffic every week. I look at our analytics of newsletter open rates and click rates every week. Whitney Lee 34:25  I am so proud of you. That's like stuff we beg our clients to look at. We're like look at these really cool numbers. And they're likeLesley Logan 34:31  I couldn't stop myself from looking right away. Because I'm like, we drop a new YouTube video and I'm like, Hold on how many? It's like, no, gotta let it do the 24-hour thing. You gotta wait a second. But like, I do look at those things because it is the only way to combat the feelings because on any given moment of the day, do you work as a human being who's not a narcissist. I'm going to have a moment I'm like, nothing's working. Nothing is working. This isn't working. It's like well actually, no, all of these things are working. Look at the look at these stats right here. And also, if one of those stats was low, the open rates would have dropped down. Okay? What happened? When did they start dropping off? What did we do? What? Like, what what did we do before that could work? Because I have the facts. So I don't have to let the emotions I'm feeling like nothing is working. Rule of the business, nobody, we wouldn't be able to keep a team if my feelings ran this business.Whitney Lee 35:20  Exactly. And that's why, like, you know, it's like, I think the worst thing you can do is just to hide from it. You know, like, whenever I go on vacation, and I come back, like, I will not get on the scale, because I'm like, Oh, I feel disgusting. Until a few days later, when I can, like detox it out. But like, sometimes it's good to just know the truth and be like, hey, our email rate is dropping, and like, what can we do to fix this? Rather than like, being so fearful of looking at the number because you don't want to see the hard truth? Like, it's okay. Like, put on your big girl panties? Like, look at the hard truth. And, and then that's when you can actually figure out a way forward.Lesley Logan 35:57  Yeah. Yeah, I think it's like, yeah, there are there. Like the days we were like, I don't wanna look at the bank account, because I just went shopping.Whitney Lee 36:04  Oh, my God, yes. That's a better example of the scale. When you're like, What is my statement balance gonna be today?Lesley Logan 36:12  That was, that was less than I calculated. But like, when you are aware of these things you can actually make, you can actually make decisions. This morning, the time of recording this, we had a team meeting. And our team is all around the world. So we had to do at 6am. And I'm like I'm doing on the dogwalk guys, because like, I can't sit in front of a computer at six in the morning. That is, like, if we're going to interrupt my morning routine, I gotta be on my morning routine. So we're doing this walk. And it was so much easier to have a team meeting, knowing. In the past last time around this event, here are the mistakes that we notated that we made that we want to fix for the next time. Here are the ideas we had last time here, like all this information, is it's just it's key data that allows us to make the decision like these are I mean, it's a guessing game, we are guessing that these are the best dates to open cart for earlybird. We are guessing that this is the best time to do this thing, even though it's a holiday in the middle of that, like, it's all guessing. But based on data from the past, we know people will open up these emails at least 60% of the time we know these things. So we can make those decisions and not feel like I hope it works.Whitney Lee 37:19  Oh my gosh, well, you know, I tell our clients that too that like not every single thing we do just because we're experts, not every single thing we do works perfectly on the first try. Hello, I jokingly say like we're like little scientists, like we make a hypothesis based off of our education and our experience. And then we try out the hypothesis. And then we see what happens and we tweak from there. You know, like, it's okay, if everything you do, it's not going to I'm going to go ahead and make that like clear statement, not everything you do is going to work on the first try. And most the time, it's not going to work on the first try. But the difference is they're just people who push through and keep trying. Whereas other people just throw their hands in the air and say like, This must not be a fit for me. This must not be it.Lesley Logan 38:03  Yeah, you're so right. Also, if it works on the first try, you actually don't really it's kind of hard to to recreate that sometimes it's a little easier if it works. Okay, like our first launch with our coaching program. It was it was it was great. It was great for us we'd like had the biggest launch we've ever had. It was if we did those numbers today, I think we'd cry but like, it was, it was it was good. And we're like, Okay, our mutual friend Keri, she's like, You guys should do that thing again. So we did it again. And it tripled, right? Because we had information from the first time to like, oh, okay, we did this last time. Are there tweaks I want to make? Okay, let's do let's oh, let's do these things. Let's pull, let's pull the dial on this a little sooner. Let's, this probably didn't do anything. And we had a survey as well. Like you said earlier, ask questions. We had a survey. So we did it again. The third time we did it, it did not go well. And we're like, oh, well, what was what was different about this third time? And what we it's an experiment all we could really actually figure out like we did in the summer. Like yeah, that's (Whitney: I was just about to say timing) timing. Like, we didn't mess up our thing, which is like hard for people who are small business owners who have kids and most of the people in our industry have a family for them to get away from for a week. They might be on a holiday that week, right? Like so. So it's like when you repeat things, you're able to really understand what worked what didn't work. And like again, you're right when some if something didn't work, if we guess like if we had this goal of like 50 grand on time one and we only did the money we did. We've been like up that didn't work. It's like well, actually, it how do you know it didn't work? It's until you try it again. So I think that it's true. Like you can't just give up and try new things all the time because you just won't actually know.Whitney Lee 39:45  Yeah, and you also have to just change just a little bit like you have to. It is literally like a scientific experiment. If you change like six different things and something different happens the second time you're not going to know which one of those six things made the difference. You are like you got to have a control.Lesley Logan 40:00  Yes, yes, yes, I mean, so true. It's the same thing like when I teach people a Pilates session like, I'm not going to give you an entirely new session the next time because if you tell me Oh, I like hurt here or actually has a little more sore here, I'm not going to what? I'm not going to know what was what was the thing was different. But if I only added five new exercises and go, Okay, well, there's only five different ones that we did. So like, let's look at these five, it makes it so much easier. Oh my god, we can just keep going. I fucking love you.Whitney Lee 40:25  Like, we're talking about PR, but we're also talking about science and neuro pathways. And I think there's a lot of science and, and a lot of psychology, I have people on my team that have a degree in psychology because it is very much so a psychology of like, how to get into someone's, you know, life and brain and, and speak to them and what, what motivates people to do what you know, so like, there's a lot of psychology to it, which is why I always say like, PR is not hard. It's not it's not freakin rocket science. Anybody can do it, anybody can. But the differences is like, just A) connections and relationships go a long, long way. And B) that just the repetitive of trying and failing, trying and succeeding, like, you know, that's the world of PR.Lesley Logan 41:18  Okay, we're gonna have to have you back at some point to just talk more, because you're just a brilliant wealth of knowledge. Maybe we'll have a panel with all the amazing women who've been on the show. (Whitney: That'd be awesome.) So fun. So I want to take a brief moment and have to find out how people can find you follow you work with you and your Be It Action items. Lesley Logan 41:35  Okay, Whitney, where do you like to hang out? Where can people learn more? See if the that's the right fit to work with you or just follow you for amazing advice.Whitney Lee 41:43  Yeah, okay, so um, if you want to find the agency, check out truestorypr.co - not .com -truestorypr.co. Also, we have our own podcast, which you can go and listen to my episode with Lesley, it's True Story the PR Podcast. So it's a cool mixture of just marketing and PR PR advice, but also like hearing people with really cool stories and brands and how they got to where they are today. So check us out on the podcast, you can find True Story on all the social media platforms. But if you want to connect with me personally, on Instagram on The Whitney Lee, T-H-E Whitney Lee, or you can find me on LinkedIn. It's Whitney Lee.Lesley Logan 42:20  I love it. So we'll also put all that in the show notes. We'll to put the episode links on your podcast in the show notes because it's so fun. Okay, you have given us amazing tips already. So so if I would love for the you know, bold, executable, intrinsic target steps people can take to Be It Till You See It. What are some action steps people can take today?Whitney Lee 42:38  Okay, I would definitely say start showing up on social media. I think everybody says that. So that's kind of a lame one. But definitely showing up on social media authentically. Stop it with the overly manicured photos like get in your stories on the daily like, figure out what how you're different and talk about that on social media. It's more about storytelling than anything. Um, action items, I would definitely say talk to the people if you're a business owner, talk to the people that you're already serving. That is probably the number one thing and find out why they chose you where they heard about you all these valuable things. People will absolutely tell you their opinion. You just have to ask and sometimes people tell you before asking but you just have to ask and you have to ask the right questions. So I think some of the most low-hanging fruit is just truly talking to the people that you already serve and the people who love you. So I think that would be number two and number three I would say put yourself out there you know like that is all that PR is like we we send out pitches on pitches on pitches all day for earned media coverage for partnerships for speaking engagements for podcast tours, is you have to just continually put yourself out there because good things will come to you even when you don't even realize what you're what you're gonna generate is just like consistently putting yourself out there so it just depends on your your brand or your business but even if it's reaching out to 10 different podcasts and saying like here's the value I can provide to your audience. It's not about you don't lead into it with I am a best-selling author I am a this I'm a that it's like here's what I can share with your audience. So I always say educate and give without asking for anything in return is the the best angle to go at it. From the get go and it will come back to you. It's a long game. It is not going to be overnight. But it will come back to you.Lesley Logan 44:44  I love all of those Whitney. I again could just talk to you forever. We're gonna have to have a coffee date or a happy hour on Zoom. I miss your face. Guys, how are you going to use these action items in your life? Tag Whitney Lee, checkout True Story Podcast and let us know what your favorite takeaways were, what were the things that inspired you, what got in your head that makes you go oh yeah I mean I love the feeling, I'm so all about that. So, Whitney, thank you so much and everyone else until next time. Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 45:08  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. 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Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The importance of allowing others to uplift and support you.   The significance of seemingly small wins and their positive impact.Lesley celebrates the podcast's 2-year anniversary as collective achievement with the team. The significance of completing a project and delivering it to customers.The benefits of finding a schedule that allows for balance between personal and professional commitments.Episode References/Links:Mentions, Lauren Barker, an eLevate memberMentions, Bianca Filoteo, an agency memberMentions, Liza Stael, an eLevate member  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Get your 15% discount for Toe Sox – use coupon code LESLEY15Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah friday.  Brad Crowell 0:00  Fuck yeah. Lesley Logan 0:00   Get ready for some wins. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Happy FYF my love's, how are you? Oh my god, we made it to the end of June, that's a frickin win right there. So thank you for being here. Thank you for having a Fuck Yeah Friday with me. We'd love to make these short, sweet and their inspiration to acknowledge the types of wins you probably are having. And if you're listening this podcast, struggling to celebrate your wins. So hi, Lesley Logan, if this is your first time here, hi, guess what? It's the anniversary of this podcast, two years we've been doing it, two years. I cannot believe the amount of people who are listening to this podcast. It blows me away every single time. We've made it two years. This is a long haul for me babes. I plan on doing this for as many years as I possibly can, as long as you like to hear this voice. So that's a win. But believe it or not, I have some other ones to share. Before I do that, though, your wins. So this is Lauren Barker. She is one of my eLevators. She's in round three. And here's the win she has. I taught the CPR instructor, a friend that talked me into getting into teaching in the first place. She has been really down lately and she's been contemplating not pursuing her master teaching level. I asked her if I could borrow her for 15 minutes. At 15 minutes I told her we could stop or I had time if she wanted to keep going. She stayed into the entire map routine. She has never practiced classically. And she said she loved it. She didn't know that Pilates could be like that, especially the mat. She said that she felt that, so satisfying the fatigue that she felt like she was shaking on the inside. Show me today and said that I had made Pilates fun for her again, and surely hope to be willing to work with her more. It's a beautiful gift to be able to give, be able to lift up a friend teacher that's frequently encouraged me. I so often struggle with feelings of inadequacy, but I was able to give her what she needed that day and maybe more so on a deeper level, grateful and also so grateful for the encouragement so many of you have given me so many different. Lauren, so happy you're on round three. And way to give back to another teacher. It's so important that we as teachers who are listening this podcast, let other people pour into us. And we often don't let that happened because we think it's our job to warn others and it is but you can only warn others if you've important too. So thank you for sharing this win, I hope that every teacher and female person listening to this realizes how important it is to let people pour into you. It can truly get you out of that stuckness you're feeling. Our next one is from Bianca Filoteo. She is an Agency member, I'm obsessed with her, she has, I'm obsessed with every single one of you, but I really have loved the journey following her as the many years I've known her. So she said, one client upgraded her package and wants to try twice a week for the next month. One kind of been working with who had a total knee replacement told me her physios already notice changes after only four sessions, and he suggested to keep doing Pilates, and got more self practice time in this week. And my body's feeling so good. I share, I love sharing this moment so much because I think it'd be so easy to ignore all three of these ones. These are big wins. And you might think these are small wins in your own life. Just like one person in your life like doing a little extra because of you, and one person having these improvements because of you, and you taking time for yourself. These are massive wins in a big way. And I want to share this because it's so important to me that you've noticed that wins don't have to be like you won the fucking lottery, they can be these little daily nudges that what you're doing in this planet matters. And you matter. And it's important that you take care of you. One more win for you from our listeners. This is Liza Stael. She's also an eLevate. She says, I'm FYFing for my future self because I know how I'm going to celebrate my 52nd birthday. On the second longest day of the year, sandwiched between Juneteenth and the summer Equinox. Since I'm turning the same number of years as there are in one week, there are weeks in one year, so she's turning 52. You guys, there are 52 weeks in a year. I'm going to FYF every week for a year. What better way to mark the number of years I've danced around the Sun by celebrating my wins? Yay FYF practice. So who is going to join Lisa on this journey? I mean, I am, I'm signed up for that. But that's because of this podcast. What are you? Are you willing to celebrate your wins every single week for a year? I hope so. And now for my win. So here's the deal, is the second anniversary of this pod, so of course you think well of course the win is a podcast and it is. I couldn't be more grateful to get to celebrate this day with you. It's kind of epic. Considering how long ago I wanted to start a podcast . it's, it's Pretty epic, that we've made it two years. Do you know how long, do you know how hard it is to make something lasts for two years, it's actually so easy for something to last two weeks, two months, even a year, think about relationships in your life. But two years, it's a big deal. It's pretty huge. But I met a chef last week with Brad and some of my besties in Knapp, Utah. And he had won an award. He was voted best chef in Utah. And he said, It's a weird, weird award to win. Because you can't be the best chef without a kitchen staff. And so the second anniversary is a big one. But it's not just my win. It's my team's win. And so to every one of my team members who is listening to this podcast, hello, I truly couldn't have done this without you. And the impact this podcast is having is because of you. Yes, I'm part of that. But without you, it would not be edited. It probably would not be consistent. And for fuck sure, it would have tech issues. So thank you. My other win is this. Last week, I couldn't celebrate the FYF because it happened on the Friday after I put the podcast out. The people who print our flashcards for the chairs deck, they sent a video of the chairs being printed. And it's really cool. Like they send this video and it's like, first of all to see sheets that come out. And it's so weird, especially if you have never seen a printer before. Like it's these weird, like they're super long. It's like longer than legal page sheets. And then I've seen the video when they're cut up, and they're like spiced up and then they're put it in like human hands are like organizing them, which is shocking to me, because I'm like, I don't understand why this is not like machine made, but they're somewhat machine made, but mostly human hands, touch them. And then someone whose hands put them in a box that they actually, while it's printed by a machine, someone hand folds, the boxes. And every time these boxes get printed for the first time, it's like it's kind of like, I don't have children, but it's like the birth of a baby of mine. Because this particular deck was nine months old. I started working on it in October of last year in Cambodia. I wrote the copy for the decks, then somebody else who was a teacher, but not classically, reviewed them. And then I reviewed them and then someone who's not a teacher at all review them, and then we send them off to the printers. And then I reviewed the printed version. And then they get sent out again. And it's this long process. And it's so easy for people to see and go wow, that's your like, you're so lucky. Oh, wow, that must be so nice. So incredible what you're doing and and sometimes people have weird suggestions for me, which I think they're being helpful, which is fine. That every time we print a deck, it is this humongous accomplishment. Because while I technically finished this deck, back in April, it's not finished until it's in the hands of you, those of you who bought it. So that is a another massive win. And I have a third win. So I mentioned that I was at a restaurant with an amazing award winning chef in Utah. And I shared this one because one of my besties from many, many moons ago, was out visiting and I worked on a new particular schedule last year, I'm always talking with my schedule tweaky with my schedule, moving with my schedule, to try to find the schedule that helps me show up as me fully the most. And I worked with my assistant last year in October, I said this is how I like my schedule to work. This is the vision I have for the schedule. And I have noticed how much I love the change of the schedule, I make gain and somebody else share that way I'm making the schedule. Let me know if you want to know, ask another question, while answering one of the Thursday episodes. But I had worked on this October of 2022. I told her how I envisioned it and I want to try it out for q1 of 2023. And in March of 2023 is like I love it. Let's keep going. So this is the first time my friends are visiting me since I made this change in my schedule. And I my friends came out on a Thursday night. We hung out all day Friday. Wednesday night. We hung out all day Thursday in town. And then Friday we went off to Utah and then Saturday we hiked around Utah on Sunday, we returned home and I said I'm so sorry guys. I have to do at least an hour of work on the way home because I definitely won't be able to hang out with you when we're at home but I have there's some work that I tried to get done before Thursday night couldn't do it. And it has to be done before then today today. So if you don't mind, I'm just gonna work while we're in the car, listening to podcasts, you know? And my friends, like, of course, and also, this is amazing how little you've had to work the whole time you've been here. And it's like, well, thank you. I always try not to be working whenever visiting with you guys. But several times you visited, there's been some crazy chaos that has happened that's required me to deal with the chaos that happened for an hour. And like, that's fine. You know, it happens, people understand, they've always been understanding. But to have them notice how little I've had to work was such a win. Because I really pride myself on being as present as possible when my friends are visiting. But as a business owner, for three companies, it can be a little hard everything, every business has its own needs at every given time. Like I imagined parents with three to four or five kids, you know, like, there's, it's kind of impossible for them not to be something going on. And there's tons going on. Actually, there's a lot going on, the cards were printing, we have this thing of Profitable Pilates that was going on, there's something else going on, we're getting ready for and yet, because of this schedule that I created for myself, and I have been working on for the last six months, I was able to be present. And it was just so nice for other people to notice, because I knew I was but for other people to acknowledge as well was such a win. So these are my wins. Do you see how there can be so many wins? Some of them can be because of a team, some can like because of a lifetime of efforting, and some of them can be intentional choices you've made, and they're not, they don't sound huge to the rest of the world, but they're huge to you and that means are huge to me. So celebrate your wins, tag me in them. And just send them in so I can shout them out to all of our listeners. Thank you so much and happy Fuck Yeah Friday!That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram.   I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network.  Brad Crowell 3:30  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Leslie Logan and me, Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 3:36  It is produced, edited by the Epic team at Disenyo.  Brad Crowell 4:23  Theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music, and our branding by designer and artist Gianfranco Cioffi.  Lesley Logan 6:51  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals and Ximena Velazquez for our transcriptions.  Brad Crowell 7:26  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all the content to our website. And finally to Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on time.Transcribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of FYF (Fuck Yeah Friday), Lesley kicks off the show by celebrating listeners wins. From productivity to transforming screen habits, these inspiring stories encourage listeners to recognize their own victories. Join the conversation and learn how to overcome obstacles and find joy in even the smallest wins.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Celebrating wins, big and small, and finding inspiration in everyday achievementsOvercoming obstacles and finding creative solutions to challengesReducing screen time and unraveling habits for personal growthThe importance of making space for new habits and embracing positive changesEpisode References/Links:Do Epic Shit Podcast  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Get your 15% discount for Toe Sox – use coupon code LESLEY15Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript: Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah friday.  Brad Crowell 0:06  Fuck yeah.  Lesley Logan 0:06  Get ready for some wins. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get startedHey Be It babe, welcome to Fuck Yeah Friday. Oh my goodness, somebody wins. One of those wins is like this FYF even happening, but I'll explain that more when it's my turn. So what we do first is we celebrate your wins and then we'll celebrate one of mine and this is to inspire you to think about some wins in your life that you might not even be considering wins. And you have to because otherwise it just is a slog, isn't it? So we have one from Tammy Adrian George, she is an OPC teacher. She's also in our agency group and she said FYF to us all. I was supposed to appear for jury duty. No calling, I cleared the whole day. Then got miraculously released. So bonus day, so she got an insane amount of laundry done. Probably because I was listening to the Be It podcast, also listen to Do Epic Shit podcast guesting and it went so well. And I now have a few core topics that all of my episodes steer to the same focus that I want. In the midst of pitching someone, I realized they don't actually have any spots open until mid June. It was so freaking awesome to offer a waitlist spot if a cancellation happens. Wind down for the school year. It's just over two weeks away, which is like actually happened at this point, means every week has offends, meetings and forms that are mandatory. And so I'm fully booked. I worked extra over the last month so there's no missing the good stuff. My client with MS just returned for a month in Paris and London seeing family and their old stomping grounds. She was so free to fall in that she was going to cancel it. She had a blast. And although she did it with me for years, we spent the last six months training with cobblestone streets, stone stairs, museum floors, and learning how to fall and recover in mind. So she said, Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you, Tammy for sharing all of those wins. Oh my goodness, a way to have an extra bonus day and like realize that you are actually waitlisting people and then meeting clients where they are, so so awesome. I love it. Okay, we have another win. This is from Chris Fenton. She is an eLevate round two person. And she got her new Contrology handles and she put them on a reformer. When I took OPC class and did rowing one, I had a light bulb moment when the shoulders opened up and the palms turned down at the end of the move. Before I switched them out. The straps were keeping my palms facing up for the entire finish. So if you don't know, pull on, it's rowing. It's okay. I know how big this linen is. It's so so key. If you ever are doing Pilates, and you just feel your shoulders and your ears all the time, check your handles, check your handles, she put some actual wood handles on to her reformer instead of having straps. And it makes a big difference. And I'm happy to nerd out about that if you want. So just ask me for a Be It Pod question or on our YouTube channel as well. Okay, now, for my win. So it's two wins this week, one of them is I've been really wanting to reduce my screen time. I've been wanting to like have more time to sit down and read a book or just journal or whatever. And I have been listening to other podcasts. And they've been doing these like different challenges where they like literally used a flip phone for a week. And then they put their phone in some sort of lockbox every day. And there was another challenge where they had to, like, do a couple things to like answer some questions before they even open an app. And I was like, Okay, these are all really interesting and got me more intrigued about like, how much time I was like on my screen, because I'm on my screen for home screens for work. So I'm not going to go away from that. But like, how much additional time am I adding to my screen time. And I'm not nearly as bad as them. Oh, my goodness. Some of them are like opening their phone like 400 times a day. Like I'm not. I'm not doing that. Oh, however, I just felt like, well, where am I spending most of my time? And you know, it's not social media apps, because I don't really spend a ton of time on there. I dropped my stuff, I celebrate the people who are engaging with us and like kind of look at some friends and I move on for the day. So wasn't there. It was just one video game that I love. And I was like, you know, I probably don't need to play it as much as we are. And so I was trying to figure out how to like, get rid of it because I do like having it as a wind down thing. But I didn't want to or like when I'm like on the plane or whatever. So I didn't want to just delete the app that's also by the way, not how you break a habit, you do not just like create a void that's gonna 1,000% create suction. So I was like, What can I do? So I used my how to unravel a habit you no longer want to have. And I turned my phone display into a gray scale from the time I do my night walk with the dogs all the way till breakfast. So it means every time I open my phone, it's all black and white, you can't really see the apps, when you do open an app, you can't really tell what's going on, like what's a button what's not a button because like there's no colors to like, make this thing fun to use. And so I did it for one week, you guys. And now I don't even have to put my phone in grayscale. I don't even, like, I don't touch my game until breakfast. And I play it while I'm having some breakfast. And I'll play it like while I'm stretching on my mat at night. But like I've reduced my consumption of this game by like two thirds, which is insane. Now, to be honest, it's not created more time for reading. However, you have to make the space first so this is why it's so important, my overachievers, I couldn't make the goal to use the game less and read more at the same time. That'd be a huge change in the life. So I just unraveled the prompts that let me use the game and took away ways of making the game easy to play. And then the next step could be reading. So we'll work on that, I'll update you on another FYF. The second win is just that this FYF is even happening. To be honest, I like literally can't get to the internet for whatever reason to work in the podcast room. It works until I want to open up an app and then it doesn't work. And that's a quiz going on. I was just in the next room over and I have amazing internet. I tried hotspot I tried all these things. I honestly was like, fuck it, I'm just gonna do it later. And I like the team needs it. I have a win to share, like I've got these other things. And so truth be told, I was like, Okay, What are other ways we could do this? So if you're watching this on YouTube, and it looks a little different, it's because I had to like (...) camera. And I hope that this I actually have no idea if the team is able to use any of this but fingers crossed. So I just want to say you should celebrate wins where like you have to overcome major obstacles, because it's an even bigger deal than if it had been the easiest thing in the world. So celebrate that you like overcame an obstacle like the doors slamming shut and you're still able to find a way to do something, because I'm celebrating this one today. All right loves thank you for spending this Friday with us. Thank you for being just awesome rockstars and listeners to this. Now it's time for you to share your wins, you can share with us over on the Be It Pod on Instagram. You can share them in the comments on YouTube or you can send them to us on the weekly email that we send out. We would love to shout you out. Have an amazing day.That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram.   I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network.  Brad Crowell 7:38  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Leslie Logan and me, Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 7:38  It is produced, edited by the Epic team at Disenyo.  Brad Crowell 7:38  Theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music, and our branding by designer and artist Gianfranco Cioffi.  Lesley Logan 7:38  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals and Ximena Velazquez for our transcriptions.  Brad Crowell 7:39  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all the content to our website. And finally to Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on time.Transcribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discover Lesley's inspiring journey as she and Brad achieved their goal, and turned their dream house into a reality. Join Lesley as she shares valuable insights and actionable advice on conquering perfectionism and manifesting your aspirations.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How having a strong family goal can motivate you to work harder and achieve your goals. Overcoming fear of failure, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome.How Lesley and Brad redefined their goals in order to achieve their dream house. How to get specific on what you want and why you want it.  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan: [00:00:00] It's Fuck Yeah friday.Brad Crowell: Fuck yeah. Lesley Logan: Get ready for some wins.Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.All right. Fuck Yeah Friday. Hi babes. How are you? How's it going? Okay, so this is actually my first recording back since we got back from Korea. And I haven't been able to share a win with you [00:01:00] that happened a couple weeks ago. So, I'm gonna share one of the most amazing wins of Brad and I's entire life with you in just a moment.But first, of course, as always, I share your wins. So if you have a win you want me to announce, I wanna share it, it's so fun. And it also is like the best way to start your weekend, don't you think? So, like Fuck Yeah Friday is actually something that a friend of mine taught us all when I was under my first mastermind years ago.And I was like, yeah, FYF. And I've been doing it ever since, like, I think it's like 2018. And it's a thing we do in AGENCY and it's a thing that we do in OPC and it's a thing we do in eLevate. It's a thing we do in my household and it's hopefully a thing that you're doing because of this podcast and I truly would love to know.So, you know, let me know by sending your wins in. So first win, let me pull this up. We had a couple wins from you guys I wanna share, because actually while I was gone, there's just like a ton of wins that came through. So I'm gonna, I'm going to catch up on a lot of 'em. So the first one is from, we call her UK Claire, Claire Sparrow.This is the [00:02:00] woman, oh gosh, I've known her for years now. She's an agency for a long time and we actually are gonna be at her place in Leads this summer. So I cannot wait to see her in real life. You've also heard her on the podcast, so this is actually someone you've heard before and she's one of our favorite episodes you've all listened to. So, UK Claire, here she is. I've been working. I've been looking forward to sharing this week's win. It's been a corker. It must be a British thing. When I joined AGENCY in August, 2019, we had a dream as a family to own our own cottage in Scotland. With all that I have learned, I was able to take it from a dream to a goal and build the steps in the business that not only fulfilled my mission to help more women with chronic pelvic floor dysfunction, but also earned enough income to make a deposit for our dream cottage.What I realized is that the big win is having a really strong family goal, made me push harder for my business goals, so I actually help way more women than I could have ever imagined. Today, my husband is eight hours from our leads home collecting the keys to our cottage in (...) [00:03:00] Northeast Scotland.Forgive my pronunciation. There are no words for how happy I am and how fueled I am to push further and set bigger goals. That said, I had a goal to write a book after a client said to me last year, you have a voice of hope. You are the voice of hope. She shared how it was my positivity and outlook that helped give the optimism that women can take charge of their pelvic health and that there is a non-surgical solution to prolapse.Confirmed when I did a kickass promotion with existing clients, refer a friend, and out of almost 400 women, one referred their mom. This was so sad because whilst women talk nonstop in my group, they don't talk out with outside the group. It reinforced the need to get a book out there. And to reach more women.So this week I completed the 45,000 word manuscript of my book ready for the Editor to start on Monday. I can't believe it. As a dyslexic, I lack so much confidence in my written work and my need to get the message out was a way stronger. So I have felt all the feels there have been a lot. [00:04:00] She's felt all the feels and there have been a lot. I was invited by Brent Anderson to speak on Pilates Hour podcast in July, which just so happens to be when the book launches, which is great timing. I taught a class for international brand Neom that has just gone live on their Facebook wellbeing group.And asked for help. My goal for the year, my team stepped up without hesitation this week to cover my classes and clients to give me space I need to work on my book and deal with a sudden family illness. My middle son got the cast off his arm and it is healed well. So that is like 17 wins. But I just wanna like highlight a couple things really quickly.She had a family goal she was so specific on, it made her work harder in her own business goals, which helps her help more women with their pelvic floor dysfunction, which helped her find women that told her you should write a book. And then she wrote a book and now she's helping even more women with her mission that she's doing on this earth , and because she has seen her goals, her vision, her mission become reality. She's now even more motivated. So you all, it is so important to have these [00:05:00] goals, and I'll talk about that more in my win. But let me go onto another win because if you're like, what is all that? I don't know, that doesn't relate to me, which I hope it does because my gosh, Claire, way to fucking go.You're phenomenal. And I love your family so much and I cannot wait to hang out with you in July when your book is launching so we can celebrate in real life. Bianca, who's from Canada, Also an AGENCY member. She had two clients buy packages this week, you guys, this was right after our coaching call where she was like, I think I might need to get a part-time job.And I was like, well, what are the things that we're doing? Here's the things you could be doing instead. So she booked two, two clients, bought packages this week. She had a client buy an intro session for next month. So I was like in advance. And now she's in touch with a physiotherapist for competitive athlete, LA athletic client.And it sounds like she wants to come with a long-term plan, incorporating Pilates into her routine. She's fucking put herself out there. Way to go, Bianca. It's not done. She's got more wins. She attended a local women's networking event last night and connect with a few women who wanted her business card.That's humongous. And she's going to Niagara Falls to celebrate her wedding [00:06:00] anniversary with her Hu husband. So love the business, love the personal wins, and also way to put yourself out there, Bianca. I know it's so hard, you guys, it's so hard for your business to grow. Like there's ebbs and flows, ebbs and flows, and sometimes it's like, why am I even doing this anymore?And it's like, get out there again and try again. And. Boom, look what happened. Alright, one more win for you all before mine. So this is Lisa McDonald's. Here it is. Hi Wins. I became C P T certified today and I'm celebrating. It's been a goal of mine since I finished my comprehensive certification with Balanced Body in 2020.It took me so long to sign up and take it. Why? Because of fear failure, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome. Once I took the leap and, and signed up for it, I assumed I would pass given all the awesome education, Balanced Body, comprehensive and eLevate program gave me, and of course, practice personal with some of you and with clients.Glad I took the leap and did it. I didn't get a hundred percent, which kind of upset me. Got to keep working on the perfectionism thing. Old habits are hard to break, so an effort to break the habit [00:07:00] and able to call myself recovering perfectionist. I'm sharing the information with you today, as well as writing so hard.Here's a pass, an exam. Accepting less than perfect. Two wins because perfect is boring, right? Yes, it is boring, Lisa. And also like, who needs a hundred percent on it? No one cares. No one cares. I hate to break this up, all of you, but like, yes, being an N C P T certified instructor is amazing because it does mean that you actually are truly a certified instructor.You took a third party exam, but no one actually cares what your score was. No one's gonna ever ask you. No one has ever asked me to see my certificates in general. But, so I understand as a recovering perfectionist as well, why you wanted to feel that way. I definitely did not get a hundred percent myself either.And so wouldn't you believe it doesn't really matter. But I love that you took the test. I love that you felt the feelings and I love that you are using this experience as a way to like recover from being perfect because it is boring and you're not boring, Lisa. So thank you to all of these members, eLevate an AGENCY for sharing [00:08:00] these wins with everybody so I could share them with our listeners. Alright now. Let me tell you my wins. So my win, it's a big one. And you, you may have already seen it because I did post this early because it happened in between me being able to record and going to Korea.So back in 2020, Brad and I well, we had this opportunity when our entire life, like many peoples was canceled, like our entire schedule was canceled. So a lot of people, you know, they had to work from home instead of going into the office, but like, our entire year was canceled. So all of the countries that we had workshops in, contracts in, all of the retreats after March, we did that one.My studio shut down, which my goals for the year was like, it was in... In March, I knew I was going to give half of my clientele away to my renters and just keep a few of my people. But the fact that I didn't actually get to say goodbye or didn't get to tell them that in person was a little rough.And at any rate, you know, I [00:09:00] know that you're listening to this and you had an interesting 2020 as well, so I know you get this. So in April of 2020, we like sat down and like redefined our goals for our future with this like, new, interesting way of doing things. And we wrote down what we wanted our dream home to be in Las Vegas.We knew how many rooms we wanted. We knew what kind of house we wanted it to be. We knew what each room was gonna do. We did all these things that we like truly like got down and dirty with how much it would cost, how much we could spend, how much we could afford, everything. Right? And we did this with one of my past guests, Kareen Walsh here on the podcast.And then in May, we actually had enough money to make that happen. At least make a deposit, a down payment on a house happen. But we actually didn't have, we didn't have like the history that banks wanna loan money to because we worked for ourselves. No bank wants to get a mortgage to people who work for themselves.And we were for ourselves in the state of California, which means we like [00:10:00] definitely wrote as much off as we could because we truly wanted to hire a team. And so that meant we had to spend a lot of money investing on our team and not in ourselves. So we were not ideal candidates for buying a house.So because of amazing people in this world, we had connected with someone who helps entrepreneurs get into houses. And he does that by doing contracts to deeds or like basically like a rent to own and, sure enough I wanted to move into our house on June 1st, 2020. Like, that was like my deadline. I was like, June 1st, we must move by June 1st.And so we did. We actually found a house nine days before June 1st. And saw it in real life. We drove out. We found it was like exactly like, it was amazing. And by June 1st we were moving in and that was amazing. But we had three years to get a mortgage. We had three years to qualify for a mortgage.And that can sound easy if one of your people in your relationship is a W two. And while we both have W two s, cause we're both employees of our own business, we still run our own business. [00:11:00] And so therefore, still not ideal candidates. And then also like, you know, we're elder millennials, we had student loans, we had debt, we like hello, trying to like survive, you know, nine 11 and recessions and all of that stuff.And so there's a lot that we had to overcome in a very short period of time. And we had an amazing team that we had helping us make every single decision there ever could be around how you spend your money. We had somebody telling us like, like we made sure we evaluated everything. We bought a van, we did this, we got a loan for the business, we did this.We did everything in a way to make sure that we could get a mortgage by the time we needed to. 18 months ago, we started the process of trying to get a mortgage and multiple mortgage brokers, like literally didn't return our calls. I'm talking multiple and we just kept going cause I was like, we can pay.We are paying for this cost for now. Like we can't do it. We are being it till we see it. I am not fucking letting this house go. You don't get to manifest something and then live in it and [00:12:00] then it gets taken away. Like I was like, we were not gonna let this happen. So at any rate, we did find some mortgage broker who believed he could help us and it took him 10 months.I took our CPA multiple filings and we were able to, by the grace of actually like the FHA, the government changing what they would do, like there was a whole process that goes into it. So whenever you see anybody like making the goal happen, I want you to know like they're not lucky. They work their fucking ass off.Okay. And I say that from a place of so much love. I say that from a place of like, just reminding you that you can have what you want. It is preparation and really, truly getting super clear on what you want and why you want it, and not giving up until it happened. So I want you to go back to uk Claire's, even her win.Like that dream that she had, that wasn't luck that got her there. It was hard work of building a team, of [00:13:00] getting people to hear her message and staying on mission. It was, the truth is, is that we didn't just start working 18 months on this. We started working from June 1st, 2020, on getting this mortgage and it took us 18 months to get it.And here, oh my gosh. Here's, okay, so here's the actual win. So we had Meridith's wedding to go to and we came home for 26 hours. We had to sign the mortgage on that day, on May 15th, we had to sign it because we're gonna be gone for what was supposed to be only 11 days, ended up being almost 13 days, and then there was a holiday weekend.So like it would just, the contract would've expired by the time if we had waited any longer. And we, I mean, got ourselves by the last minute or the last client on the last possible day, we could sign this mortgage, sign this mortgage and the house that you have been seeing pictures of, the house that we live in, the house we talk about all the time, the cactuses that Brad talks about.This house is our house. We're not renting this house. There's no deadline anymore. Like we got this house and I'm so [00:14:00] proud of Brad and I, but I'm also so grateful for the massive, amazing team and the effort we put in. I share this one with you because if you can get super specific on what you want and why you want it, I promise you, there's no stopping you.I promise you, there's no stopping you. I promise you won't let anything get in the way. You will move heaven and earth to make that happen. And I share this one with you because I do hope that you do that. I want you to experience moving heaven and earth to have the win that you wanna have to have, the thing that you wanna have to have, the life that you wanna have, cuz you deserve it and you're amazing.Thank you so much for letting me share this FYF with you today. It's a little bit longer one, I apologize, but I needed to share it with you because, because that's like this entire house was being it till we see it, the whole last three years was literally being it till we see it to live in this house.So being until you see it works, thank you so much and until next time, you need to Be It Till You See It. Have a good day. That's all I [00:15:00] got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram.I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See it is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. Brad Crowell: It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan: It is produced and edited by the Epic team at Disenyo Brad Crowell: Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music, and our branding by designer and artist Gianfranco Cioffi. Lesley Logan: Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals and Ximena Velazquez for our transcriptions. Brad Crowell: Also to Angelina Herico for adding all the content to our website.And finally to Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on time.[00:16:00] Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Welcome to the Divine Feminine Revolution Podcast! Ready to fully inhabit your body? You get to live the FUCK YEAH! life you crave and deserve! **** Meet this episode's guest: Melody Kiersz I've always been curious about what makes people tick. I remember asking myself out loud why I was Melody Kiersz, a human and not a dog or a cockroach, and why was I born to my parents... at 6 years old. This got me snickers from my classmates, but I knew I was onto something. This curiosity, and an unending determination to live life on my own terms, drove me to create my own custom-made degree in Happiness from New York University, get certified as a holistic health counselor and as a yoga teacher, and travel the world within and without. It also drove me to excavate all the ways in which I, and us humans, get in our own way when it comes to living a fully self-expressed life that is in alignment with our values and our desires. Through my explorations in yoga, tantra, buddhism, taoism, all kinds of mysticism, trauma healing, embodiment, and working through my own blocks and 10 years of coaching my clients through them, what I found is that it is our ignorance about how to be in a body (due to countless reasons) that keeps us trapped in making unempowered choices that leave us unable to enjoy the here and now. This is why my coaching and healing work is centered on using pleasure, sensuality, playfulness, and shadow work to create the safety necessary to return to fully inhabiting our bodies, so that we can all have the FUCK YEAH! life we crave and deserve. Connect with Melody on Instagram @melodykiersz  **** Come join me in my FREE private Facebook group, Divine Feminine Revolution: https://www.facebook.com/groups/divinefemininerevolution/ Send me a DM on Instagram! @drmeganmonday Check out the Divine Feminine Revolution pod on our YouTube channel. ⁠Subscribe if you love feminism, psychology, spirituality, and powerful women telling their success stories. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3dgsLD7ueGLphjZMXe1wow  

Sie sind die krasseste und härteste Elite-Antiterroreinheit dieses Planeten: Das Team America (Fuck, Yeah!). Und das Beste, sie sind Marionetten. In einer fulminanten Podcastfolge klären wir, ob das Klischee von den USA als Weltpolizei angebracht ist, warum uns der Film fast South Park gekostet hätte und das Wichtigste: Was steckt hinter der Theorie mit den Harten, den Pussies und den Arschlöchern? – – – – – – – – – – – WERBUNG Die Links zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://bit.ly/kussponsored – – – – – – – – – – – PODCAST KAPITEL 00:04:11 Kommt ein Alien 00:13:11 Handlungszusammenfassung 00:38:27 Trivia und Produktion 01:03:25 USA-Weltpolizei 01:35:28 Die Penetrations-Balance 01:58:08 Du wirst nicht glauben, worüber wir hier reden! 02:06:26 Hörerfeedback – – – – – – – – – – – Die Kackis auf Tour: https://bit.ly/kuslive – – – – – – – – – – – Kack & Sach Premium-Kanal hören: http://steady.fm/kackundsach – – – – – – – – – – – Website: http://www.kackundsach.de Social Media: @kackundsach Kack & Sachgeschichten Der Podcast mit Klugschiss

Sie sind die krasseste und härteste Elite-Antiterroreinheit dieses Planeten: Das Team America (Fuck, Yeah!). Und das Beste, sie sind Marionetten. In einer fulminanten Podcastfolge klären wir, ob das Klischee von den USA als Weltpolizei angebracht ist, warum uns der Film fast South Park gekostet hätte und das Wichtigste: Was steckt hinter der Theorie mit den Harten, den Pussies und den Arschlöchern? – – – – – – – – – – – WERBUNG Die Links zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://bit.ly/kussponsored – – – – – – – – – – – PODCAST KAPITEL 00:04:11 Kommt ein Alien 00:13:11 Handlungszusammenfassung 00:38:27 Trivia und Produktion 01:03:25 USA-Weltpolizei 01:35:28 Die Penetrations-Balance 01:58:08 Du wirst nicht glauben, worüber wir hier reden! 02:06:26 Hörerfeedback – – – – – – – – – – – Die Kackis auf Tour: https://bit.ly/kuslive – – – – – – – – – – – Kack & Sach Premium-Kanal hören: http://steady.fm/kackundsach – – – – – – – – – – – Website: http://www.kackundsach.de Social Media: @kackundsach Kack & Sachgeschichten Der Podcast mit Klugschiss

The guys (@GamblingPodcast) are joined by Billi Bhatti from the Soccer Gambling Podcast to give out their USA vs England World Cup predictions. Plus World Cup betting strategies talk, Saudi Arabia's crazy upset and Ronaldo leaves Manchester United. Then they're joined by Josh Landon (@HailCheaters) of the Always Cheating podcast to talk World Cup gambling and his favorite World Cup futures.Subscribe to the Sports Gambling PodcastApple - https://sg.pn/sgpSpotify - https://sg.pn/sgpsListen to more World Cup coverage from SGPN...on the Soccer Gambling PodcastApple - https://sg.pn/soccerSpotify - https://sg.pn/soccers...on the World Cup Gambling PodcastApple - https://sg.pn/worldcupgpSpotify - https://sg.pn/worldcupgps...on the MLS Gambling PodcastApple - https://sg.pn/mlsSpotify - https://sg.pn/mlssMore World Cup coverage from SGPNhttps://www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com/soccer/Podcast Timecodes0:00 - Pre-Roll0:47 - Welcome - Intro -2:45 - WynnBet 100% Free Bet Promo - http://sg.pn/WynnBET3:34 - SGPN Contributor Billi Bhatti22:55 - USA v. England Game Preview28:34 - Billy Bhatti's ML and Total Bets29:12 - Sean's ML Bet30:40 - AMERICA. FUCK YEAH.32:35 - Both Teams to Score Prop Bet32:45 - Most Corner Kicks Prop Bet36:16 - Kramer's Wynn Build Your Own Bet Prop39:45 - Ronaldo Release from Manchester United Reaction47:10 - SGPN Contributor Josh London53:30 - USA Stage of Elimination Prop Bets55:29 - World Cup Champion Prop Bets1:02:10 - Golden Boot Winner Prop BetsSGPN Merch Store - https://sg.pn/storeDownload The Free SGPN App - https://sgpn.appCheck out SGPN.TVSupport us by supporting our partnersWynnBET - Bet $100 and get a $100 FREE bet! - https://sg.pn/WynnBET Follow The Sports Gambling Podcast On Social MediaTwitter - http://www.twitter.com/gamblingpodcastInstagram - http://www.instagram.com/sportsgamblingpodcastTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@gamblingpodcastFacebook - http://www.facebook.com/sportsgamblingpodcast Follow The Hosts On Social MediaSean Green - http://www.twitter.com/seantgreenRyan Kramer - http://www.twitter.com/kramercentricWatch the Sports Gambling PodcastYouTube - https://sg.pn/YouTubeTwitch - https://sg.pn/Twitch Read & Discuss - Join the conversationWebsite - https://www.sportsgamblingpodcast.comDiscord - https://sg.pn/discord Reddit - https://sg.pn/reddit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The guys (@GamblingPodcast) are joined by Billi Bhatti from the Soccer Gambling Podcast to give out their USA vs England World Cup predictions. Plus World Cup betting strategies talk, Saudi Arabia's crazy upset and Ronaldo leaves Manchester United. Then they're joined by Josh Landon (@HailCheaters) of the Always Cheating podcast to talk World Cup gambling and his favorite World Cup futures. Subscribe to the Sports Gambling Podcast Apple - https://sg.pn/sgp Spotify - https://sg.pn/sgps Listen to more World Cup coverage from SGPN ...on the Soccer Gambling Podcast Apple - https://sg.pn/soccer Spotify - https://sg.pn/soccers ...on the World Cup Gambling Podcast Apple - https://sg.pn/worldcupgp Spotify - https://sg.pn/worldcupgps ...on the MLS Gambling Podcast Apple - https://sg.pn/mls Spotify - https://sg.pn/mlss More World Cup coverage from SGPN https://www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com/soccer/ Podcast Timecodes 0:00 - Pre-Roll 0:47 - Welcome - Intro - 2:45 - WynnBet 100% Free Bet Promo - http://sg.pn/WynnBET 3:34 - SGPN Contributor Billi Bhatti 22:55 - USA v. England Game Preview 28:34 - Billy Bhatti's ML and Total Bets 29:12 - Sean's ML Bet 30:40 - AMERICA. FUCK YEAH. 32:35 - Both Teams to Score Prop Bet 32:45 - Most Corner Kicks Prop Bet 36:16 - Kramer's Wynn Build Your Own Bet Prop 39:45 - Ronaldo Release from Manchester United Reaction 47:10 - SGPN Contributor Josh London 53:30 - USA Stage of Elimination Prop Bets 55:29 - World Cup Champion Prop Bets 1:02:10 - Golden Boot Winner Prop Bets SGPN Merch Store - https://sg.pn/store Download The Free SGPN App - https://sgpn.app Check out SGPN.TV Support us by supporting our partners WynnBET - Bet $100 and get a $100 FREE bet! - https://sg.pn/WynnBET   Follow The Sports Gambling Podcast On Social Media Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/gamblingpodcast Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/sportsgamblingpodcast TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@gamblingpodcast Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/sportsgamblingpodcast   Follow The Hosts On Social Media Sean Green - http://www.twitter.com/seantgreen Ryan Kramer - http://www.twitter.com/kramercentric Watch the Sports Gambling Podcast YouTube - https://sg.pn/YouTube Twitch - https://sg.pn/Twitch   Read & Discuss - Join the conversation Website - https://www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com Discord - https://sg.pn/discord  Reddit - https://sg.pn/reddit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. They are the key to success in every aspect of your life. They are what allows you to use your full space given on this earth and be able to return to those you love the most. They create health relationships and mindsets that seep into every area of your life. Tune in for this episode for steps to establish these transforming boundaries, especially around the holiday season. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Tips to surviving and creating boundaries during the holiday season.The messy backpack experience and how to use it.The two things celebration achieves.How to make it easier to uphold your boundaries.Who are you giving your 15 minutes too? The two types of availability.Episode References/Links:Tour InfoJoin us on a retreat!  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyUse this link to get your Toe Sox!ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap where my co host in life, Brad and I are going to dig into the boundless convo I had with Tanya Dalton in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to that one, you're going to want to go back, listen to that one, and then listen to this one. Because first of all, she's frickin amazing. Second of all, everything will you'll want to hear the recap with that. So it's like seven to 17 reminders of how much you need to have boundaries.Brad Crowell  This was a really amazingly actionable conversation. And also, like really inspiring. She is a powerhouse. (Lesley: She's powerhouse.) Yeah.Lesley Logan  And she knows that which I love. I love when people own their shit. So I, there's a lot going on, actually, in real time, Brad actually is in Philly as we speak.Brad Crowell  I probably just landed.Lesley Logan  Yeah. But I'm still missing Cambodia, like I really just, I just am, I really want to go back. I wish we were going back sooner than later. But at any rate, you probably saw the pictures, you're still seeing them and have a lot of FOMO. So if you haven't yet, done it, get on the waitlist for the next one, so that you don't have FOMO anymore. And you can just go. And if you're thinking, "Oh my gosh, you guys have so much going on. I've got kids, I've got all these things." Guess what you're going to ask for help for your kids to be taken care of. So you can go and retreat yourself. (Brad: Yeah) So go to lesleylogan.co/retreats.Brad Crowell  Do it. Come join us. Well, we also got back from a road trip just before I went to Philly.Lesley Logan  I know it's been a little crazy.Brad Crowell  And we we actually this I'm putting this out into the future here. But we saw the damn Grand Canyon.Lesley Logan  We saw it. We saw it. Oh my gosh, if you're on the newsletters, Amanda, our producer was like, "Hey, do you have those pictures of how you did see the Grand Canyon?" And I said, "Oh yeah." So I texted her the pictures. And I forgot how much you can't frickin see because we didn't see anything. And I was like, "Maybe I'm being dramatic." And when I looked at the pictures, nope, not being dramatic never saw it, definitely was a white wall. So if you're on our list, you saw those pictures from our life. And we saw the Grand Canyon. I'm so excited about it. And I'll tell you more about all the details of what we did there in a future episode. But I am just so grateful that we got to take a day for ourselves and check out the Grand Canyon. (Brad: Yeah) And here's the thing, Brad's gonna come back from Philly, I'm going to head to Dallas to teach. And if you're wanting to know if there's any space left in the workshop with Erika Quest, and I just DM me on Instagram, because I don't know in this exact moment if there will be or not. But I will tell you that I am going to be back in Texas to teach some classes and only be in Texas, we're going to be in Nashville, Atlanta, Greensboro ... more and more more. It's really friggin awesome. Brad just loves to put me on tour. It's like living out his music days. So go to onlinepilatesclasses.com/tour. If you are in the States, and you're wanting to be in a pilates workout with me, and you know, maybe get away from some holiday shenanigans for a moment to, you know, serve yourselves with Pilates.Brad Crowell  Well, speaking of those shenanigans, that leads us directly into our question.Lesley Logan  I know, I really do. I saw this question come through. And I'm like, "Yeah, we should talk about this on this episode."Brad Crowell  That was a heck of a transition right there. So how do you handle family and the holidays when it comes to boundaries?Lesley Logan  Yeah. So when we got this question, I was like, "Oh, I have to go in Tanya Dalton's because it's all about boundaries," like boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. And and I don't know, maybe that is the secret key to life. Probably is. (Brad: Yeah) How we, how, well Brad, why don't you go first? How do you handle your family and holidays and boundaries?Brad Crowell  Well, I I think that for me, it's a little different. Because obviously they're my family. It's how I grew up. I'm very used to how they function and operate. But I probably have a better boundary creation when it, when I was around your family of like, hey, we're going to you know, call it a night and we're going to retire and go into our, the spare bedroom and we're going to close the door. Right? That's one way to set a boundary, the (Lesley: Yeah) door is closed and other one is being clear upfront with what you're participating in and not participating in. If that's like, if you know, because my family is like, when you're there you are 100% in on every possible thing for every second you're connected to them, you know, and that's that's just the way ...Lesley Logan  They do lunch (Brad: function breakfast, they do dinner and I ... (Brad: everybody's together) And so I think what's interesting is like, you made the point, you know, you know your family because you grew up with them. (Brad: Yeah.) So first of all, if it is with your family, and you do know how they operate before you go, think about what is the normal things that happen in which things you want to participate in and then just let them know before you're there, so it's not this going back to Elle Russ it doesn't have to be this like demand confrontational conversation, you always make me have lunch with you, I don't want to do it could just say, "Hey, here's what we'll be participating in. And here's what things we probably won't be available for. I want to give you a heads up before you go grocery shopping." (Brad: Yeah) Right.Brad Crowell  Also too like, if you know that after dinner, you know, when everybody's like, completely sloshed. And the conversation always becomes absurd or antagonistic or degrading, or whatever you are, you know, one thing that what some of our friends have done is they get themselves their own hotel room, they actually don't stay home. And so you can simply say, "Hey, you know, at nine o'clock, we're gonna go back to our hotel." And that way, you're completely separated from them. And you already know, okay, I all I have to do is survive that long. (Lesley: Yeah.) And I hope that that's not your situation, but it very well maybe.Lesley Logan  You can also love your family a ton and want to stay in a hotel room. (Brad: Surre) One of my dear friends, I'll keep her name off of this, but but she does get now she lives near her family because she had a kid but she did get an Airbnb, and not stay with her in laws, or even her own family and, and they were like, a little uncomfortable about it the first year and she's like, "Look, I love you, and I want to stay loving you and I want to be here for a whole week. If I have to live with you, I'm gonna be here for 24 hours." (Brad: Right) So she's like, "I just have things that I like to do. And I want to be able to do that." And so you don't have to it doesn't have to be about them, it can actually be about you. For me, (Brad: Yeah) to have all the energy to keep up with this, this is what I need. And if people don't respect that, that's a different decision you have to make that is actually separate from this and maybe outside my paygrade. And where therapy should be in place.Well, let's talk about your you know, for example, you have a morning routine. You get up, you have for run, you sit with, you know, you read, you whatever you're journaling sometimes ...I work out in your parents living room (Brad: working out) I take over at the ...Brad Crowell  But you know, and around our house, because I'm not an early riser, you're not interrupted, generally speaking. But at my house my dad gets up at six. (Lesley: Oh, yeah, no, they're, like, "Good morning.") You know my mom gets up at 6:37, (Lesley: I'm like, good morning.) You know, so like, it definitely changes your morning routine, because of the other people in the house. And so it might be that you need to separate yourself so you can maintain your routine.Lesley Logan  Well, and I don't and so here's the thing, like, I don't invite them for a walk with me. It's not because I don't want to see them. (Brad: Right) It's because that is my morning routine and that is my time. And then I can, I have breakfast with them, which is also normal. But I keep that. So I think it's like, truly think of picture out past holidays. What you didn't enjoy. And then what can you set the stage for this time, so that you can have the conversation in a non confrontational way, here's what you can expect from me. I know you're doing your holiday shopping, I just want you to plan ahead. And here's, here's what I won't be participating in. (Brad: Yeah) Because we've got some things going on. Thank you so much. I can't wait to see you, the end. You know, and if people are passive aggressive, that is a different story. And they always will be like you're never going to there's nothing you're going to do that ever get. They'll be passive aggressive, but something else. (Brad: Yes.) It's not you. It's them.Brad Crowell  Yeah. And you know, the other thing is to like, maybe you don't stay for a whole week, maybe only stay for four days, you know. So anyway, I think those are pretty actionable (Lesley: Yeah) tips there. Great question. Thank you so much for asking and ...Lesley Logan  Yeah. You can send questions into the @be_it_pod on Instagram. You can also send them in to the team, you can reply to our on our newsletters, whatever it is, we'll find them, we'll answer them. We love answering them. So thank you for that one.Brad Crowell  Okay, now let's talk about Tanya Dalton. With intent to allow her husband to stop traveling for work to be closer to their kids. Tanya Dalton grew her for fun side hustle business into a multi million dollar company replacing his income within the first year so he could come home and work with her. Since she since written multiple books, kicked off her own podcast, appeared as a featured guest on TV new shows, and has received awards for helping female executives and entrepreneurs step into purposeful leadership, so they can do less while achieving so much more.Lesley Logan  I mean, you know, I was all about her. Like, I was like, yeah, no, she's totally right for the show.Brad Crowell  Yeah, I mean, I didn't I didn't include any actual specifics in there. But she has like a rockin company. And she, she loves she's a coach. And she, you know, she's a rock star.Lesley Logan  She's got two books. So get out there and read them put them in as part of your holiday travel, reading or listening on tape. It's they're so essential for preparing you for the next year. 100%. One thing that I love that she said she brought up the messy backpack experience. And like, you know, I'm a visual person. So she's talking my brain was just thinking about a big person's like to school, all these things. Do you ever if you ever like met those people who like you're, you're like, "Oh, I spilled on myself." And they pull on Tide pen and you're, "What the hell? Like they're so prepared." That's Brad actually. And so many people are like a little ashamed of how messy the inside their purse or mess... a messy that set their backpack is. But actually, like, very rarely is anyone actually seeing what's inside your bag.Brad Crowell  Well, just so that there's some kind of context, it's not about an actual backpack. (Lesley: No.) We're talking about the experiences of getting through life and like handling trauma and all the feelings and you know, good days, bad days, depressing days, exuberant days, basically, she was talking about, you know, just putting one step in front of the other, and doing life that way. And along the way, you will end up collecting, you know, all of these experiences, and you throw in your backpack, and she said, but it's messy in there. So you don't necessarily let people in the backpack. But when you're, when you need an experience, when you when you need something, you have something to pull from. And that's where Lesley's talking about the purse. I think it's hilarious that you could actually, you know, just just pull out a Tide pen, for example.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Yeah. And that comes from it. And I think we're so it's so easy for to get ashamed that like how we got to something. And I think we we think that our way to achievement should be pretty imperfect and like something you like, it's so beautiful. But most achievements are messy. Most roads to the to wherever you're going have obstacles, you trip, you stumble, you get dirty, like (Brad: Totally.) you know, it's just so funny when now that things like everything has been filmed. And like the truth is, and if I filmed everything that I did, most the time, you'd say my hair is not brushed, it's not done up, I trip, I'm on many walks, like, you know, but all those experiences allow you to show up with so many tools in your backpack when you need them. (Brad: Yeah) So acknowledge that you actually have this backpack full of tools full of things you need. Because it's all there for you, you eat. If you were listening to this, you have a backpack that is messy, you just might not be looking at it, because you're avoiding it. But you have it and it's there. And it's there to help you. So I just love that she brought that up. I think it was really cool, easy for you to picture. And I hope people start like using their messy backpacks. Bring it with you. What do you love?Brad Crowell  So she talked about this high five Fridays, and she said that her customer service team, actually she said our customer happiness team gathers together, the nice comments in the notes that they collected all week long. And they email them out to everybody on Friday, late afternoon. It's the last email that they get before the end of the week. And it's a it's it's basically just a reminder that they're having a positive impact in people's lives. Because I think that it's easy to get lost in the weeds, it's easy to get lost in the whirlwind, as we like to say. And you said, you know, that's amazing, it creates a culture of celebrating, and then talking, talking about the wins, you know, channel that we use and stuff. And and Tanya said that celebrating is so cool. Because it does two things, it brings people in to the experience. It allows them to see well that they could have that experience that they want that experience. And the second thing it does is it furthers your own belief in yourself, which impacts other areas of your life of your life. Right. So when you have a win at work, and you're like, "Wow, this is amazing. I helped my client, you know, stand taller today and she looks amazing because of it." You know, when you acknowledge that and celebrate that, it will help you find more wins in your you know, when you go back home to your house. And there's like you know, something there and you're taking that energy, that excitement back to the rest other parts of your life.Lesley Logan  I mean, you know, I feel about wins. I just think that I mean we have Fuck Yeah, Friday, I decided we need merch. We need FYF merch. (Brad: Oh) Because like what a (Brad: great) great thing to wear and really was FYF and you go it's Fuck Yeah Friday. What's that? What means you celebrate? At least celebrate on Fridays. And I just, I really think the more whether it's a high five Friday, and FYF or, you know, a motivating Monday, it's really important to establish some sort of time that you look at what is going well and the impact you're having. Because it just makes it better. It makes it easier, it makes it easier for you to uphold your boundaries.Brad Crowell  That's exactly right. Anyway, I think that the the high five and FYFs all that stuff if you aren't doing that in your life now. Just put it on your calendar. So like remind yourself at 4:30 on Friday afternoon, bing alarm goes off. And now it's like, "Oh yeah, I need to find something to celebrate right now. That's great in my life." And to be honest, it could be very small. It doesn't have to be this ma... like majestically huge, massive thing it could be you know, I got up when my alarm went off this morning. I didn't, I didn't hit snooze. (Lesley: That's amazing.) Yeah. You know, I, this morning, I started my day with a very cold shower.Lesley Logan  I did hear that I like heard sounds coming out of it.Brad Crowell  It was like, I don't know why I've been doing this now for like two weeks. But today's shower seemed colder than every other shower I've had. I don't know why. (Lesley: That definitely ...) I was like took my breath away.Lesley Logan  But I mean, but just to point out, it's okay to have those wins that are like things that you are just getting done or just doing because you did something (Brad: Yeah) and you need to have that data, that data supports you in everything you want to do. So I'm into it.Brad Crowell  Yeah. Well stick around. We'll be right back.All right. Finally, let's talk about those BE IT action items. What bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items can we take away from your convo with Tanya Dalton? I'm going to throw this one in real quick. She just kind of had it at the very end. It was kind of a comment less an action BE IT action on it. But I really thought it was powerful. She said if you can't give yourself 15 minutes. That means you're giving it to somebody else instead. (Lesley: Oh, yeah.) Okay. And you were talking about like, you know, the It must be nice for you, which we'll we're gonna get into, but must be nice that you can walk around the block for 15 minutes. Well, I'm sorry that you can't take 15 minutes for yourself. But I need to go walk around the block.Lesley Logan  Well, and also like, I'm not I'm sorry. It's like, it's a little bit like, I am sorry for you, actually.Brad Crowell  Yeah. I'm sad. I'm petty. (Lesley: Yeah ...) You don't need to be condescending ... you know.Lesley Logan  No, but you don't but like that. I mean, like, I mean, let's just get into it. So I we got into this whole it must be nice convo. And I have we've had the episode before on the mental wellness, a wellness shaming, and when like you do go for a walk around the block or like you do do something nice. And some of them (Brad: sure) oh must be nice for you. You know, if you are someone who's saying that, because it really you're like, "Oh, it must be so nice for them." Just say, "I'm so happy for you that you can do that." (Brad: Yeah) Because when you say it must be nice for you. It does make the other person feel like it's a passive aggressive, nasty comment.Brad Crowell  Oh, yeah, it makes you look bad, (Lesley: Yeah) too that way.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Yeah. And also ...Brad Crowell  ... so nice for you. You know, (Lesley: Yeah) I don't be around that.Lesley Logan  Yeah. And the reality is, if you find yourself saying that to yourself about someone, you're not even saying out loud, and come ask me, how nice for them. That is a sign that they're doing something that you wish you were doing. (Brad: Yeah) So jealousy is not an awful thing if you use it as a flashlight or a magnifier around an area of your life that you want to improvement.Brad Crowell  That's true. Like, it must be nice for you. Maybe it's it must be nice for them. And it's something you're thinking. Like, I wish that I could do that too. (Lesley: Yeah) Kind of the thing ...Lesley Logan  Yeah. If you're thinking that then what boundaries do you need to put in place so that you can have those things to where ...Brad Crowell  Let's talk about your big takeaway.Lesley Logan  Yeah, so boundaries, boundaries, like I was just like, wow, like, this is like, we just got all on the boundaries. And I really did not expect that from her bringing her on, because she's an amazing author of other things. But she does talk about it a lot. So ...Brad Crowell  Well, she's a mom. (Lesley: Yeah) She's a spouse. She's a mom. She's a business owner. She's a homeowner. Lesley Logan  And I think like when it's really easy to think about when when you think about the boundaries in a business, you forget that your marriage is a business, you forget that your best friend is like, all relationships and itself are some sort of entity, whether they are for profit or not for profit. And so what is really important, and what I really think it distilled down to is like communication around your wants and needs. (Brad: Yeah.) And, and if you don't know what boundaries need to be changed in your life, then you have to look at where you're getting a little bit frustrated, just a little bit fru... like the first frustration of the day, the thing that takes you out of the wind moment and right in ... what is that, because that's about when you are resenting someone is because you are not upholding a boundary that needs to be there.Brad Crowell  Yeah. Yeah, I think you should say that again. When you're resenting someone.Lesley Logan  When you're resenting someone is because there is a boundary that's not being upheld that needs to be there. (Brad: Yeah) It needs to be and we talked about this, the idea of like a school, and if the school is next to a busy road, and there is no fence and they tell the kids don't go, don't stay close to school (Brad: stay close, stay close.) What it does is create uneasiness because no one knows what stay close is it's very vague. So you've got some kids who are like the total like perfectionist like okay, I'll just touch the wall. I won't leave the wall and (Brad: Right) then they're not actually relaxing. (Brad: ... next to the teacher) right, and then the teachers like, "Get away from me because like I need some time." And then there's this kids are like, "Well, I'm not I'm like I'm in between the school and the busy road. Hahaha. I'm so close because I'm close to the school." And like ... (Brad: That may or may not have been me.) It's really Brad. And I'm totally we grow like squeezing the wall but next to the teacher like look at me, "I'm so close to the school." And it's like just no one knows how to behave and no one has interact. But when you put that boundaries are placed on the fence is put up, that everyone can play (Brad: Yeah) and take up space inside that fence. And that allows people to really understand what is allowed and what's not allowed. And it's so much more freer, like just picture just picturing that, like, sounds like freedom, and there's still boundaries in place. So anyways, take a moment, and she talked about this being a thing that you can do, like, take a moment to assess inventory, of your boundaries, which ones like it, that's kind of like, it's kind of like what you do on the house, you would go and make sure that your fence is intact around the house, especially if you're getting a puppy at Christmas, you're gonna make sure that there's no hole in the fence, right?Brad Crowell  Yeah. If you don't know what it means to have boundaries, then here's ... Lesley Logan  Here's the sign. You don't have boundaries.Brad Crowell  Well, you don't have boundaries. And that's but here's a, here's a really clear example. And this is what she did. And I thought it was really inspiring. She said, there are two types of availability that she sets for her business. One is business availability and the other is actual availability. Right. So there's the differentiate, differentiating between the hours for business and the hours for availability. She said, when I'm working on my business, I'm generally uninterrupted and no one can get in touch with me that's on purpose, when I'm available, when when I'm making myself available, that means I'm available for my team to talk to me, and I'm available for my clients. Right. And she actually said, what I do is I put in my my signature of all my emails, when I'm available to be contacted, and when I will be contacting them. Right. So whether that whatever that is, my availability is between 8 and 12. Let's just say, right, and so for four hours a day, oh, wow, interesting. Because the other half of the day, she's working on her business, and she's uninterrupted and unavailable. And what I thought was amazing, was, she's such a teacher. But she, she said, I created a, I created boundaries with my team, with my family, including my kids, and also with myself. And so with the team. That's the business availability versus the, you know, working availability. Then with the end, the clients fit right into that with the family. She said, when my, she said she had a special phone, that would phone sound that would ring during certain hours of the day. And she trained her kids, this is amazing. She said, I had a magnet board and on the wall, and they had activities on them. And when my phone would ring, my kids would run over to the wall and grab an activity off the board and go entertain themselves so that I could trust that they were being safe and okay, but also I was uninterrupted for my client phone calls. (Lesley: Yeah.) How cool is that?Lesley Logan  Oh, I mean, come on. Like, it's amazing. And for the Mama's listening, and like, please steal that from her because, (Brad: Yeah) because you're like, I just I can't I can't be on a phone call. They need me. Well, if they're an infant, probably, but if they are at all able to play with anything safely, you can allow them to go like this is when you get to play with this. And kids like boundaries. They really do. They really like they like to know what's allowed and went and they like to play with that. So I just think everyone's thriving. When you have boundaries. Everyone is.Brad Crowell  Yeah, yeah. I mean, and she talks about that too. With what you both did, because you know, you work with your spouse's, hi I'm Brad. The the she said the key the secret to a happy marriage is communication. And then you have this whole conversation about communication, which ultimately led ultimately led back to boundaries.Lesley Logan  Boundaries. Set the boundaries. So y'all, what are your boundaries? We want to hear them. Tag the @be_it_pod with your takeaways, tag Tanya Dalton. Check out her books, and let us know how it goes. I'm Lesley Logan.Brad Crowell  And I'm Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan  Thank you so much for joining us today. We are so grateful that you're here. I can't even believe it. I'm so so excited for what's going on with podcasts and the guests we're bringing on it's all because of you. So again, share us, share with us how you're gonna use these tips in your life by tagging the @be_it_pod. Send it to a friend, text it to a friend.Brad Crowell  Yeah, don't just send it to a friend. This specific episode send it to a mom. (Lesley: Oh) You don't have to be a business owner. (Lesley: No) Because she talked about and I know we've we're signing off but she talked about how homes, you the home is effectively a nonprofit business. (Lesley: Yeah.) Okay. So if you don't see yourself as a business owner, but you have a family, probably you're you're you're setting a operational plans of how you execute wife.Lesley Logan  Let me just tell you that this gets us into a whole thing about how I think moms should be paid because they do keep the allow for the other person in the household who is working to have a job where they can go be uninterrupted and the household is fine. (Brad: Yeah) That's a different topic for a different day. And I'm just gonna say I love that we're changing this up because it's like ... It's like at the end of the movie like, "Should I wait for the end of the credits?" Like you should be on the whole time till the very end.Brad Crowell  Yeah. (Lesley: So ...) If there's one thing that you if you if you want to help us out, you share this podcast, (Lesley: Yeah) this podcast. Send it to another mom.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Thank you so much.Brad Crowell  Have an amazing day.Lesley Logan  Be It Till You See It is a production of Bloom Podcast Network. Brad Crowell  It's written, produced, filmed and recorded by your host Lesley Logan. And me Brad Crowell. Our associate producer is Amanda Frattarelli. Lesley Logan  Kevin Perez at Disenyo handles all of our audio editing. Brad Crowell  Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. And our branding by designer and artist, Gianranco Cioffi. Lesley Logan  Special thanks to our designer Mesh Herico for creating all of our visuals, (which you can't see because this is a podcast) and our digital producer, Jay Pedroso for editing all the video each week, so you can.Brad Crowell  And to Angelina Herico for transcribing each episode, so you can find it on our website. 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