Embracing bravery in everyday life is the path to creating a life you truly love. Tune into the inspiring "How Can You Face Your Fears & Redefine Bravery To Create A Life You Love?" podcast as Kristine and Janette powerfully remind us that acts of courage come in all shapes and sizes – from tackling the fears that hold us back, to simply showing up despite life's challenges. Whether it's conquering new adventures like sailing uncharted waters or bungee jumping, facing difficulties like a divorce or illness, or taking those first brave steps after surgery, recognizing and celebrating our brave moments empowers us to keep going. So write down those courageous tales, remind yourself of what you've overcome, and let that bolster your mental toughness to fearlessly pursue the joys that await. Life's greatest treasures lie on the other side of bravery.
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Embracing bravery in everyday life is the path to creating a life you truly love. Tune into the inspiring "How Can You Face Your Fears & Redefine Bravery To Create A Life You Love?" podcast as Kristine and Janette powerfully remind us that acts of courage come in all shapes and sizes – from tackling the fears that hold us back, to simply showing up despite life's challenges. Whether it's conquering new adventures like sailing uncharted waters or bungee jumping, facing difficulties like a divorce or illness, or taking those first brave steps after surgery, recognizing and celebrating our brave moments empowers us to keep going. So write down those courageous tales, remind yourself of what you've overcome, and let that bolster your mental toughness to fearlessly pursue the joys that await. Life's greatest treasures lie on the other side of bravery.
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Hello, hi everyone, welcome to. I Created a Life I Love we're here, we're ready. My name is Kristine Spindler Denton and I am Janette Rodriguez. And we're here.
Janette Rodriguez:We're ready.
Kristine Spindler Denton:We're ready to roll this week, getting some energy going here. So we are on to a whole new topic for this month, which I'm really excited about. I think there's a lot of ways to explore this, so we're going to look at some and get all. I can't wait to hear your stories and your feedback. So, although, as we know, I publicly do not like comments on other people's stuff, I love hearing people's stories. So that's very different when you're talking about yourself and your journey. So we are definitely asking you to share that. So please make sure I just want to post this out there because we haven't said it in a while but we are talking to different people about their journeys and people we can possibly have on the podcast, talking about how they're out there creating a life that they love and hearing their stories. So we're going to try and add those in when we can and when we can line it up to interview people and bring them onto the podcast. But also, please just email us because we also can read your story and share your story on air. If we're not able to fully podcast with you, we can at least share your email and your story of how you are finding more joy. You're on your joy journey and creating a life that you know brings you that joy, and our email is icreatedalifeiloveatgmailcom, and that's you know. Ic created a life I love, as all our social media, andcom is our website, so please email us and tell us about what's going on with you.
Kristine Spindler Denton:And, um, our topic this month is bravery. So we really invite these stories of bravery because, as I started to, or as I did, say last week, that I feel that bravery has to be, you know, looked into more by everyone, because I think it is important to see yourself as brave I do. I think it's important as an empowerment factor to be able to say I'm brave. So I think we kind of have to redefine it and make sure we're not looking at it in just, you know, things that we heard in fantasy, childhood stories of heroes and bravery. I think it's that's. That's not what we're looking at, and I don't think that should be where our definition stops. So please send us stories of you being brave and, you know, facing your fear which is the part we're going to focus on today when you have done that and how it turned out and how it has made your life better when you've done that. So that's our call out and that's our topic for today facing your fear. But before we get there, jeanette, what's up?
Janette Rodriguez:Facing my fears huh, facing my fears of my family coming over. Yeah, well, they came and they, you know, we survived that one day, which was amazing, and they enjoyed themselves so much. It was just so exciting to have everybody over here. I was a little fearful of like, oh my God, like, are they going to like the place? Are they going to be comfortable? Are they going to you know just all the different things that I was thinking, as that led up to them coming here to come visit and it was great, it was amazing. So I faced my fears of hosting a lot of people and a lot of people spending the night, and I was actually more prepared than I thought and that is why, people, if you are getting married, you know if you're in that stage of getting married you got to ask for those supplies in your wedding registry.
Janette Rodriguez:So like towels, you know anything related to home stuff. You know, definitely put that on your wedding registry, Because I can't tell you like I had a lot of things that I had on your wedding registry, cause I can't tell you like I had a lot of things that I had on my wedding registry that I didn't think I needed, but you do, you definitely do so it was great. It was great.
Kristine Spindler Denton:The one I have to say yay for you. That is a huge amount. I've done that once or twice in my life. Um, when my family has come for Thanksgiving or something and had, like my brother's family. There's five of them and then parents, you know that's another two, so you're up to seven, right, and then our family at that time was four, and so it was a lot of people and not huge house. So it is definitely a challenge to stay out of each other's way and to just keep the food coming. Even if you only did it for I did it for two full days, but even if you're doing it for one full day, it's, it's just a lot and you feel that pressure. So I am very happy for you that.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Yay everything went well, and that cause I know you were stressed out about it, which is understandable. You know, some people can have people over and they're not stressed, it's just easy whatever. Some people can have people over and they're not stressed, it's just easy whatever. But most people, I think, do feel stressed, even if it's people that you know are going to go with the flow and they're not real picky or crazy. But it's still just stressful, it just is. And so I'm very proud of you because I know you were stressed out and I'm glad it turned out well.
Janette Rodriguez:Yeah.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Yeah, along with your registry, factor though my registry where I was registered. You want to hear this? Oh, yes, please, I was registered that. I can't remember the name of it now, but it's a boat place for boat supplies. It was like a boat, usa Like. I can't think of the name of the particular store, but it but it's a boat supply store.
Kristine Spindler Denton:And because my ex-husband now, but my husband and I at that time, when we were getting married, we were planning a trip to sail from California to Hawaii and we sailed, which took 28 days. So we were in the boat together a 30-foot Catalina, um for 30, um for 28 days, so all of our items cause we had to rebuild the boat and get the boat ready for that, and so our boat registry was for boat supplies as we were putting the boat together. So it was safe to be able to sail to Hawaii. So I got none of those things. Let me point out what I mean. That's those decades and decades ago, right?
Kristine Spindler Denton:But I got none of those things that you need to figure out. My mom was so pissed and God love her, but so she was so mad that this is what I was doing and we got married on a sailboat as well but that this is what I was doing and that I didn't have a normal registry. She ignored it completely and even got a couple of my aunts to ignore it completely and bought me all of this. They had a whole little private boycott, which I thought was just hysterical. Again, I didn't get mad about it at all because, again, I think everyone needs to do what they want to do and it might not align with what you want, but again it could turn out for the better, and it did, because she bought me all this amazing cookware, like a full, huge cookware set that was hundreds and hundreds of dollars that they went in together and, you know, did as my gift, and I still have that cookware today and that's what that's awesome.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Like 35 years later or something like I it's. You know it's crazy and it's still wonderful, wonderful cookware and so and I use it all the time so, look, that's happened. So I am not the person to come to advice to on anything wedding, but um, there you go. So listen to Jeanette and get those, sure, but yes, but we made it to Hawaii safely 28 days. It was an amazing voyage, but that's a story for another time, or maybe not, because our topic is being brave. And, trust me, I was. I was scared to death to sail.
Kristine Spindler Denton:You know, like that first day when you get up and you look around the boat and you see nothing but water, you do not see land in any way, shape or form. And then that first night, when it's pitch dark and you're taking turns you know what I mean Staying up with the boat and making sure you're, Because we did have a piloting type device, but still it was. I mean, this was decades ago. What they have nowadays is amazing, but and we did have a kind of autopilot type thing, but it it wasn't something that you could just leave you know for forever and do. So we did. You did have to wake up every so often and check on it. And so we would take turns who had to do that every night, so one person could get a full night sleep without getting up and checking, and then the other one would sleep and then get up and check, and up and check and um, but the first time it's completely pitch, pitch, pitch black. Um, you know, in the middle of the oceans and the star in the middle of the ocean, sorry, and you know all the stars and the light. It's just incredible. And there's no land to be seen anywhere on the horizon. It's a very eerie feeling it is, I will tell you that.
Kristine Spindler Denton:But I I loved it. I did not think I would love it. I grew up, I was born in California but I grew up in Minnesota, and so I've been on the water my whole life and love the water my whole life and um skied and swam and sailed and everything but lakes. Even the larger lakes, they're lakes. You know there's land somewhere. But being out on that ocean, it was a very interesting adventure. It definitely challenged all of my fears and concerns about safety and just what if and what if. And we had some close calls. We had some storms, we had some running with whales. We had a lot of interesting things that happened that got you going.
Kristine Spindler Denton:But I will tell you, that feeling of accomplishment when you see land, the first day you see land after you've been out on the ocean, and like, oh my God, we did this, we made it. It's just the most amazing, empowering feeling ever. It's an incredible feeling, so that kind of segues, I guess, us right into facing your fears. What are your thoughts first, before I go off? What are your thoughts about facing your fears and being brave, or definition of bravery? Are you good at it, bad at it?
Janette Rodriguez:What do you think Well, you know, it's me, I'm a work in progress. So I think it's definitely a part of growth facing your fears, because being fearful is a response that we have. If you want to talk about, like, why we are so fearful is because you know, scientifically, we were fearful of predators that were out there and we had to protect ourselves. Response that was useful, right. And now people having fears can be intense because they could be fearful of everything, right. So for me, I think and I've said this before in previous podcasts that the older I get, the more fearful I become, which is strange and I don't understand why, because I was so like able to just do things and just be like quick, to not even think about some of my choices and just go for it. So like, yeah, exactly Like skydiving, hiking, doing this, doing that, you know, because you've done some very brave stuff like skydiving, hiking, doing this, doing that, you know. Um.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Cause you've done some very brave stuff like skydiving, that's like that's. I don't know if that's something I would do, I've done, but I, I you know again. So I don't know if that's something I would do, but so I'm, I'm surprised that you feel you you're getting more so because you're 20 years younger than me. So I, it's very interesting to see the difference, so I'll tell you like my part of that. But yeah, so go on. So that's interesting. You feel you're getting more fearful about everything.
Janette Rodriguez:Yeah, well, I mean, if it's like physical stuff, it's more like fearful of heights that I randomly started having, yeah, and then fearful, like, as far as social situations, it's more fearful of difficult conversations with people, you know and saying the wrong thing or, you know, maybe a facial expression that I have, you know, and try to, especially in the, you know, professional setting. You know, sometimes you're like, oh, did my face just do that, or is it in my mind?
Kristine Spindler Denton:So I had bad fear. We're in a lot of trouble. I'd be. I wouldn't leave the house.
Janette Rodriguez:I know, I know, and so what I found very helpful for me is to have those mental chats with myself ahead of time, like if I'm having those difficult conversations or even if I'm going to, you know, out and hiking and I'm a fear, I have a fear of heights, you know have that chat with myself and give myself examples of where I was successful when I did have those difficult conversations or when I experienced the, you know, the height situation.
Janette Rodriguez:So it that definitely has helped me with, you know, facing my fears, because I, you know, like we said in the previous podcast, like judging the situation, judging the situation of, oh my God, I'm going to fail or oh my God, I'm going to fall, if you, it's training your brain and having that mental thought of like, ok, no, you have been successful in X, y and Z, you can do it. Of like, okay, no, you have been successful in X, y and Z, you can do it. So, and I will tell you this, in facing my fears and I do it every year and I still haven't really been successful in getting chosen, but I apply for hiking Mount Whitney every year. For the past I swear, for the past nine years I must be doing something wrong, but I always apply for a permit to go do it and I never get selected. But I have heard that people just show up to see if there's any permits available because cancellations and stuff and then they go. Yeah, they're able to do the hiking.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So that must be something that's happened in the last couple of decades that it's gotten that well, everything's gotten so busy now, but that it's gotten that popular that you can't get a permit that sucks, that's a hard time.
Janette Rodriguez:Yeah, yeah, and so you know it's something that I've been wanting to do to face that fear of heights. Difficult conversations would happen all the time at work, so I would always have to have that mental chat with myself.
Janette Rodriguez:You know as far as, like, how I'm going to approach talking to somebody, and especially difficult conversations with people that are higher positions than you. I guess I would always be like, oh, I have to talk to this person, oh no, so having that fear kind of sets you up for failure, to like. You know, as far as if you feed into the fear. Okay, yeah, so facing your fears is huge in, you know, growth it is so big. What about you, christine?
Kristine Spindler Denton:Well, I think I would say to all the 30 year olds out there and maybe this is just me, so again, I can only speak from my unique experience, as we all should. So, gen Xers out there, jump on in, jump on in and share your thoughts, email us or, you know, jump on in on the comments that I won't read, but someone will then tell us your thoughts. But my thoughts are to all the 30 year olds out there. You start to not give a shit, like in my fifties. I don't give a shit, I don't what anyone thinks. So any of those type of fears I feel go away. Now there are other fears and I get your point, so I'll talk about those in a second. But your first point to having any fears about what someone's going to think and like if my facial expressions wrong, like obviously I'm on this journey to create a life I love and part of that journey is to be kind and loving and open to all people and embracing all people on their own unique journey. So I don't want to make anyone feel bad. I don't want to judge somebody else. I don't you know any of those types of things I'm trying to give up and move away from in my growth. But as far as other people judging me or as far as other people you know, having thought and maybe not liking me, I could give a shit Like don't care, don't care if they're offended by something. I say, don't care if they feel like I've overstepped. No, no, do not care. That's a them issue, not a me issue.
Kristine Spindler Denton:And I honestly that happens in your fifties, I think, for most people. I think the older you get, the more you realize and I think people who have been through like a diagnosis, like cancer or some type of you know, such life changing situation, you realize you only have so much time on my planet and I'm not spending one second of it not one second of it worrying about what someone else thinks about me. Not one second. There are plenty of things for me to worry about, like how my kids feel about me and my family members and making sure I'm supporting people and I'm being the best I can be, all of those positive things I'm all over. But yeah, so I can say to you I think I felt that way in my 30s. It's hard to always put yourself back in time, right, but I think I had body issues with scars and everything happening I just laugh at because you know my body will never be the same now. But and so all that time I spent not liking my body or not accepting my body and all of that it just makes me. It doesn't even make me sad, it just makes me laugh because it's like it was just wasted time. So I definitely had that in my twenties and thirties and even after my kids.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Like you know, it's so expected for, you know, mothers to get back in shape so quickly to the body they are and oh, you look so good since you know it's all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Take your time to get over having a child and love your body. But it's easier said than done. But I can tell you, as you get older, you let go of a lot of that, a lot, all of that kind of stuff which I think is harder to let go of when you're younger and I think that is an advantage of age is you let go of what people think about you and you let go of your judgment on yourself I feel at least I have as far as your body and the things you didn't like about yourself. You know, whatever it might be with your personality or physically, and you let go of that. So that part I can say to you, I think it's better. The fears, I think it is something you have to fight against as you get older, to not make your world smaller. I think I see two types of very distinctly different people and again I'd love to hear other Gen Xers' thoughts but that you're either you open up and you're watching the new generations come and you're interested in what they're doing. You're not judging them, because we all know what it was like to be young and stupid and that's and it's okay and you should be, cause you're supposed to be trying everything out and new and it's not even stupid. It's just exploring and doing your best in the moment. So you either are looking at all those new generations and new things to come and you're open to it Doesn't mean it has to change who you are Like.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I don't jump on every trend. There's always all these trends out there saying, oh, to not look your age or to look younger, you have to do this, this and in, because these are the new trends. I don't have to follow any of that shit, but I do like listening and seeing what everyone else is doing now. It's fun, it's interesting to see what the trends are out there or what perspective different generations are taking and how they're doing it different than we're doing it and if you can be objective with that and open to all of it and see the possibilities and the good that can come from it. I think it's really fun to get older and watch it all happen.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I also see the other side of people getting older where their world gets smaller and they only want to talk about the past. And I love listening to my past music and old books and dancing to old things like that and all of that. But that can't be your whole life. And I do see some people where their world gets smaller and they make that their whole life. Looking back, only talk to old friends don't, you know, have nothing good to say about anything new that's happening or next generations coming up, and that comes with fear, and I do see them more fearful to then try new things to do things.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So I think you have those two groups and if you're in the first group, I think you're willing to try and to look at fear and to try and do something about it. Like I said, I went bungee jumping when? So it was probably about 10 years ago, now nine years ago, and that was definitely not something that I ever thought I would do. I have always had this net, didn't come on early, but I've always had a fear of heights. I am fine being up high, as long as I don't have to be on the edge. It's that feeling on the edge of looking and looking down.
Kristine Spindler Denton:My thing with fears is I ask why, if it's a fear that is stopping me from making my life better, I'm going to face it and deal with it. I'm going to force myself to face it and deal with it. That's going to be my act of bravery, which is what I think facing fears is. I think getting up every day and and you know well, we'll get into the definition of bravery, I think, because I think we, we don't give it a correct definition. But staying with fears, I, if it's a fear that I don't is not holding me back, it's a fear that I don't is not holding me back. I don't know that we have to overcome every single fear we have. I think we can look at it honestly. If we know why we have it and if we can understand, you know what's behind it, where it maybe came from, do some digging, you know, talk about it with someone in therapy or self-analyze how it whatever works for you, but really look at it. Then I think that you know I don't think it's necessary to change every part of yourself in in that type of way just to be considered brave.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So, like my fear with heights, like that, it's never been something that's stopped me. Do you know what I mean? There's never been anything I've wanted to do. And if there was something like San Gabriel mountain or climbing that, or sometimes there's been some hikes I've gone on with friends that are really clear Then I face it. Then I am like, okay, but you can, it's not going to be forever, you don't have to stand on the edge and stare down like, just do the walk, keep your eyes ahead and move on and do it. And then I will put myself in those positions to force myself because it is something that I've analyzed and said is this something I really want to do with my friends? And it was like, yes, I would love to go on this weekend and do this, although there will be some cliff situations there.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So I'm going to have to face it here. I'm going to have to deal with it. What words am I going to say to myself? How am I going to handle it? And then I you know what I mean and I did. Sometimes you can do, do it like that. Other bigger fears, you know, take more time to really look at and face and get to the root of where it's coming from. And you need to do that work, I feel. So if it's holding you back and if it's stopping you from doing something that you think will bring joy into your life and help you create, you know, a better life, then I think you got to face it. I do.
Janette Rodriguez:You know, looking back at the conversations that I have with my family members, you know, especially the elderly, and just how they are. They do focus on, like the before times, and I'm like you're, let's still do things, you're still alive, let's go places. I know you can do it, but I think it's fear for them too, of being able to physically do things. Or you know, and I'm like, come on, we got this, we're here for you. But you know, it's their journey and I can't force them through their journey, but I can encourage them if they do decide to do it.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Yeah, you absolutely can and give them the opportunities to say yes to and to be with someone who they love and trust. Right To go do it, and I think that's really, really important. I think, like we were having, we're trying to put together like a little mini reunion with some of our college friends, and that was one of the first things that I said and a couple of us agreed on immediately. We don't want to just go someplace and talk about the past and what it was like in college, like, let's go somewhere where we can create new memories with us, like and so it's fun for a college reunion to go back on campus and to be there and to see all your old places that you haunted, see your old dorm rooms, all of those places that you went with your friends, and have those memories and create a new memory with them in that place. Not knocking it whatsoever, it's fine, but it's also cool to take those people that you have memories with from the past and do something new and create new memories instead of living in that past. And, as I said, it is hard as you get older. It's not hard, I shouldn't say that, but it is a challenge that you can get caught up in only talking about you know what, what happened in the past and do you remember this and how great that was and all of that it is, and I think that's a normal part of aging. I don't think there's anything wrong with anyone doing that. I think it's a normal part of aging to reminisce about great times that you've had in this life, and that's cool. I think it's great to have those memories. But if you only are living in those memories, that, to me, is where you're missing out. And again it takes you back to you're not in the present moment, right? The only place you can find joy and create a life you love moving forward is if you're living in that present moment, if you are aware of what's going on right now and if you are living to the best of your ability and with your purpose, your unique life in this moment.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Um, and my girlfriend said she goes. Well, yeah, she goes when I'm you know cause, we're in our fifties and she's like well, yeah, when I'm in my nineties, I want to remember just my twenties, I want to remember my fifties. She's like 40 years from now she goes. I didn't, I can't stop creating cool, great memories for myself. She goes, yeah, when I'm 90 and I'm really probably not moving around right at all, or that much depend. I don't know. There's a lot of nine-year-olds out there nowadays doing great things, but she's like you. You know she goes. I want memories from my fifties. I want memories from every decade.
Kristine Spindler Denton:My issue is with when we're looking at facing fears is, I think we need to just change the word bravery from a very young age and as an educator, you and I have talked about this that letting cause. It's an empowering word. I just feel that saying you're brave and adding that to the list of your assets as a person is really important because it does empower you, especially for women and for kids, like saying that you're brave because you deal with this, this and this. Saying that you're brave because you get up every day and go to school and walk into that math class even though you are struggling your ass off to understand math Like you are. You know you're getting a poor grade. You are, you don't get it. You feel frustrated. You've tried to communicate your teacher. It's not working.
Kristine Spindler Denton:We've all had students like this that have a subject that they really struggle with, but they get up every morning and they come to school and you know again, they have to and their parents tell them to. But we have a lot of kids and Jeanette and I worked in a very um, have worked in very challenging areas economically and there are a lot of parents that are not there. Those kids could be skipping, those, you know, those kids could be not putting in any effort whatsoever, but they're still going, they're still, but they're still going, they're still trying, they're still writing down directions, they're still trying to figure out what you're teaching them to do, even though they may be lost. That's an act of bravery, that's a huge act of bravery and I just think that we think bravery should only be this big. I don't know highfalutin, I don't know what words to even use to describe how that word is used in our society, but it shouldn't be used that way. That's all I can say.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I think, getting up every day when you're going through a horrid divorce or a difficult divorce, or you've become a single parent and you don't know how you're going to pay the bills, or your heart is broken and you've just been through a bad relationship, or you're dealing with a disease, or you're struggling with anxiety or depression and you're getting up every day and saying I'm not going to let it beat me. Today, I'm going to do my best, I'm going to go to therapy, I'm going to talk to someone, I'm going to give everything I can give and I'm going to take care of myself. Today, all of those daily things are an act of bravery. There are days on this planet that people are in that it is not easy to go through. It is not easy to get out of bed that day, and that is an act of bravery and I think people need to acknowledge it more.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I think we need to acknowledge it more as a society, need to acknowledge it more. I think we need to acknowledge it more as a society and we need, in our own personal lives, celebrate those moments. I mean a couple of days after one of my surgeries, I like how I felt that day, you know, was nothing short of like the worst I felt on this planet and I got up. I got up, I did my like maybe it was only 10 steps I could take that day, but I got up. I did those 10 steps and those were days of bravery. Those were acts of bravery and I've written them down.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I've done things to make me remember those, and those were as much days of bravery as it was crossing the ocean in you know what I mean In a sailboat for 28 days and I that's. You know. That's what I think, that I want people to know. I want people to recognize in their own lives when they are having those days of bravery, when they don't feel like it, when they don't know what's coming, those those days of bravery when they don't feel like it, when they don't know what's coming, those are days of bravery and you need to tell yourself that. You need to celebrate that. You need to pat yourself on the back on those days, record them somehow, write them down. I've recorded the days like that. It's been really, really hard for me because I want to remember on days that might not be as bad as those. Hey, you've been through worse than this and you've made it and you showed up and you did it.
Kristine Spindler Denton:You can do this Like. It just empowers you so much as I was saying with the sailing, it just empowers you so much that you can do tough things like right we. You can do hard things. Tough things like right we, you can do hard things, yeah. And so that's my, that's our challenge today. People, celebrate yourself, celebrate your brave moments. Write them down, record them somewhere, stick them up on your mirror, so to keep you motivated and to celebrate those hard moments. You deserve it. All right For a moment of joy. Mine would be.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I'm going to put, since we're talking about facing fears, that I did do, like, the whole bungee jumping thing. I did it backwards because, again, as we said, I can't stand the looking forward. So ours was off of oh, I got it, I think, the bridge to nowhere, I guess is what it's called in California, and so I did it where you hold onto the bridge, so you jump off of the bridge into the Canyon and you could either face down and there, but I said no, like, again, not a fear I needed to face, I didn't have to do it that way, but I jumped backwards. So I was looking at the guy and then he said, okay, go. And then I just jumped backwards and it was amazing. It was an amazing, amazing feeling when you hit that point that's past the point you normally would jump right, Like we all have an idea of when you jump, of hitting land right. But when you jump and you just keep going and your body and your head your head realizes that wait, you're still going, you're still falling that's such an amazing feeling that I would love to hear what other people who have done something like that felt.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Maybe you did when you jumped out of your plane. Like that falling feeling when you've gone past the point of where you would normally stop falling in your life you've never fallen this much before was such a weird feeling in my head and my body that I've never forgotten it and it was very cool. It was also my oldest daughter. My younger one was all for it. She'd been jumping off of things since she could move. But my oldest daughter was not thrilled with the idea and she was so brave that day. She fully embraced her fear and did it too, which I thought was amazing as a very young girl. So I was very proud of her. So that's my moment of joy that I'm sharing. How about you?
Janette Rodriguez:So my moment of joy is actually going on a hike with my family and all of my cousins and even my dad. So we went on a hike, in Mono County I believe, and there's this hike that goes up to the lakes in the far back past a certain peak of one of the mountains. It's just crazy how many lakes exist in the Sierra Nevadas. It's insane. So we went to just the first lake and it's actually motivated me to go beyond that.
Janette Rodriguez:So I, every year, I'm always telling myself like, okay, let's go further, let's go further up. And you know, the weather sometimes doesn't work out and this year we have incredible amount of snow, so I don't think I'll probably be able to do it this year either. But, um, and being able to face that fear of heights and look out, you know, into the Valley, of just seeing it from a completely different perspective, and it was just beyond beautiful. It's just so peaceful and it just brings you to a different world and you hardly run up to, you know, run into anybody and it's you in nature, literally, and it's just crazy. It's insane, so beautiful, and I was very proud of my dad that he did it Very cool.
Kristine Spindler Denton:All right. Well, we have our Monday Minute, so don't forget about our Monday Minute. This week. I'm encouraging you to be brave Again. It's in our shorts videos on YouTube, so go to our YouTube channel at I Created a Life I Love and you can listen to those. They're really great to take a break at any time throughout your day and refocus yourself. Get yourself back on your intention and a positive, a good place and space that you're coming from. So go to our Monday minutes. And then, oh, I have one of our other cups. People are asking about a traveling mug cups. This is a little traveling one that we have with our I created a life I love logo, so you can get those on Etsy. And then, what are we going to next week? We're still talking about bravery.
Janette Rodriguez:Yes, is that what we're doing, yes, so next week's topic is strengthening mental toughness.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Ah, okay, so how to help you face those fears? Yes, exactly, good mind over matter. This will be interesting.
Janette Rodriguez:All right everyone. Thank you so much for listening to us this week.
Kristine Spindler Denton:All right, go out and have a great week, everybody, bye, bye.
Janette Rodriguez:Bye.