Imagine navigating the complex terrain of your professional life with clarity, confidence, and a deep sense of purpose. Picture yourself being able to set boundaries, avoiding burnout, and remaining resilient in the face of obstacles. Join me as I engage in a thought-provoking conversation with seasoned professionals, Kaylie Banda and Savannah Woodward. They share their rich experiences, insights on career paths, growth mindset, and the art of setting boundaries to avoid burnout. You'll hear their personal stories of dealing with imposter syndrome and breaking down barriers in advancement. Expect to gain a fresh perspective on aligning your career with your passions, exploring underrated industries, and the hustle in entrepreneurship.
In part two of our conversation, we immerse ourselves in the importance of self-care and self-awareness in our professional lives. Kaylie and Savannah reveal their routines and techniques to recognize personal limits and communicate them effectively. As young professionals, we're often faced with big challenges. Learn how good leadership can make a significant difference in your workplace and how faith can influence personal and professional life.
Finally, we delve into the transformative power of being part of a supportive community like the Young Professionals. Our guests share their tips on self-reflection, setting goals, and dealing with challenging situations. Discover how creating a personal mission statement can guide your decisions and contribute to your legacy. Connect with Kaylie, Savannah and the Young Professionals community to explore the untapped potentials in your professional journey.
Imagine navigating the complex terrain of your professional life with clarity, confidence, and a deep sense of purpose. Picture yourself being able to set boundaries, avoiding burnout, and remaining resilient in the face of obstacles. Join me as I engage in a thought-provoking conversation with seasoned professionals, Kaylie Banda and Savannah Woodward. They share their rich experiences, insights on career paths, growth mindset, and the art of setting boundaries to avoid burnout. You'll hear their personal stories of dealing with imposter syndrome and breaking down barriers in advancement. Expect to gain a fresh perspective on aligning your career with your passions, exploring underrated industries, and the hustle in entrepreneurship.
In part two of our conversation, we immerse ourselves in the importance of self-care and self-awareness in our professional lives. Kaylie and Savannah reveal their routines and techniques to recognize personal limits and communicate them effectively. As young professionals, we're often faced with big challenges. Learn how good leadership can make a significant difference in your workplace and how faith can influence personal and professional life.
Finally, we delve into the transformative power of being part of a supportive community like the Young Professionals. Our guests share their tips on self-reflection, setting goals, and dealing with challenging situations. Discover how creating a personal mission statement can guide your decisions and contribute to your legacy. Connect with Kaylie, Savannah and the Young Professionals community to explore the untapped potentials in your professional journey.
Hello everyone, welcome to season two of standing your truth podcast. I'm your host, yanni. On this podcast, you will hear myself, family and friends having open ended discussions on anything from faith, finances, relationships and how to stay motivated during life trying times. Make sure you follow me on all. My social media link is in the bio. Sit back and get ready to enjoy. Hello, hello everyone, welcome to another episode of standing your truth podcast. Once again, I am your host, Yanni. Today I have again a dual set of co-hosts. I'm going to allow them to introduce themselves.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone. My name is Kaylee Banda and I wear many hats, and I don't know which hats Yanni would like me to say, but my name is Kaylee Banda, whatever one you want. I'm a commercial lender at Southwest Bank. I'm a chairwoman for the Unprofessionals of Odessa. I sit on the board for the Purring Basin Rehab Center and the Alarm Center. I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 4:Hey everyone, I'm Savannah Woodward. I serve as the director of special events for the Shepherd Leadership Institute at the University of Texas, Permian Basin. I also serve as the membership liaison on the board of directors for the Unprofessionals of Odessa.
Speaker 2:I just feel like I messed up. I said dual, I have three, so we actually have a, I guess the youngest co-host that's been on. Do you have anything you want to say to the mic? No, he's playing with fire trucks. So we also have Savannah Sonner joining us as well, so he may jump on and say a few things whenever he gets ready.
Speaker 1:Shepherd, shepherd, yeah keyboard whenever he gets ready, so I have them on here.
Speaker 2:The topic for today is just being a professional nowadays and what that looks like for us. I think we're kind of all at different stages. Obviously, you have Savannah, who's just no being a mom, so we'll go over that. But before that gets started, we're just going to do our house questions to kind of get warmed up and have a couple of ice burgers Don't look so sad, cole. What's wrong? The first one is what motivates you? What is your why?
Speaker 4:For life I can, yeah. Well, a big why for me is obviously my family. So having a kid, it really changes the game. You have someone who's looking at to you and so you have to provide and you want to set that good example. And so spiritually, emotionally, financially, physically, all of the all of the things, but also like just for myself.
Speaker 4:I know for those who aren't really familiar with my background, I was not super fortunate growing up in my childhood and so trying to do better for my family and really for myself and my education is really important to me, the engagement and all of those things. So that's my why.
Speaker 2:Okay, samantha, the main cove man. He's taking back all his clothes on the table. Here you go, sorry, no, okay, my bad, all right, what's your why?
Speaker 3:My why, I feel like my why is a very broad why, but I think that we were all given gifts right by our creator and I truthfully believe that I was put here to just be a positive source of energy, to be a light. Okay, so that's, that's my why. That's why I do the things that I do. That's.
Speaker 2:I felt that kind of lines up with mine a lot of the time, I feel like I was meant to just encourage but keep going. So I don't know, yeah. However, wherever I land is always kind of the area I end up in, so I understand that. So how do you guys protect your mental health or what is your self care routine?
Speaker 4:That's kind of an ongoing journey. Yeah, discovery.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:It's day by day for me, like the more I've matured and the more that I've grown, I've had to really evaluate and be self aware and like self assist and kind of play off that. So like what I needed last year is not the same as what I needed this year, that's true, just being able to see that and kind of navigate it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like how you touched on self awareness. That is so key because I have a really bad habit of overthinking things and so when I get in this like area in my brain room, just like being really hard on myself, it's very easy for me to stay in those habits. So just being self aware, it has really helped me. And then doing simple things like going outside and just enjoying God's creation, like feeling the breeze, feeling the warmth of the sun, finding joy in those little things helps me protect my mental health.
Speaker 3:I mean when I can go outside and just like see two beautiful birds living their life not a care in the world. Like that helps me because I know that there's something on this earth that's bigger than just me, and whatever it is that I'm like battling in my head yeah, so Is it dropping?
Speaker 4:I agree with the whole like getting in your own head, though, because I feel like, as a young professional, I'm struggling with a lot of imposter syndrome, as I'm trying to like, excel and make next moves, so navigating that too is rough, but just taking a breath and kind of realizing like this is not all there is for me, like this is not all there is in the world, and the scope is bigger than the tunnel vision we're getting to yeah.
Speaker 2:That's hard and that's the lesson I'm still learning. It's on the ground For sure. Well, what advice would you give your younger self?
Speaker 4:It's not always going to be like this. I would like I don't really know how to put it best, but it all. You know how. Everyone says it took six days for everything to be created. Like he can change your life in one. Yeah, I just. That's so range, true. The older that we get, the more things happen. I'm like just because today is not a bad day or today is a bad day does not mean that tomorrow is gonna be a bad day.
Speaker 3:I would tell my younger self that it is not about you. I may be in my battle and imposter syndrome. I've always had this like this need to just like feel like this type of person. You know, like I'm at this level, I want people to see me as this type of person with these types of characteristics. And as I've progressed throughout my journey and like growing my career, getting more involved in the community, I've realized that people don't appreciate you because you're wearing a beautiful pair of shoes and you know you have a super cute outfit or whatever. Like people appreciate you for those things. People appreciate you for just showing up and like helping out and putting in the work.
Speaker 3:So, that's what I wish I would have known earlier. Like, it's not about you, it's about trying it, but she's got cute outfits a lot of times, oh yeah, they call those cute heels.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'm like she definitely does. I'm gonna play so many cute heels For sure. I'm like okay, Hi, I don't know how to work this goal. Give X some. Oh wait, maybe I do, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:I'm just trying to see that I'm not making it in this video for the first time, but we do have a new overdrive. Who already knows me? Those are both eight, 10 million dollars, dollars, scalper 950, one pointher 11100 equals 1170.
Speaker 4:So now the question is yeah, if you still know him he already know you. You know home. I was not fulfilled by work, I didn't care to be fulfilled.
Speaker 4:I was not involved in organizations. I wanted to come home and just, you know, veg out and not do anything because I, the resources weren't there or weren't advocated for. So it didn't seem as though there was a lot to do. And then moving to Odessa was a game changer because it was like oh, we, like nonprofits, are seeking people out, they're more vocal about their needs and, yes, you don't have to meet any qualifications as long as you have a want to come and work with us. And the job opportunities and the community of people really made me see the value in myself because everyone was so welcoming and so positive and supportive, and so I felt more fulfilled in my career because I had a better support system along the way too.
Speaker 2:How long have you?
Speaker 4:been in Texas. We moved here. Well, we lived in Texas all of my life, but we moved to Odessa in March of 22. So a little over a year now it was me trying to calculate.
Speaker 3:I'm like okay okay, okay, I would say for me, one moment that that shaped my life was probably the first time I decided to be involved with the young professionals of Odessa. My friend yes, my friend from work at the time, his name was Andy. Some of you might have heard this story, but he invited me to go to a service committee meeting for young professionals of Odessa, and so I had gone to their annual banquet, you know, the December before, just because the bank I worked for had bought a table. That was kind of all I knew about it at the time, and so he invited me to this meeting. I was like sure, why not? I drove on to him and I'd give it a go.
Speaker 3:So I walked in and you know they're talking about their annual school resupply project. This was the first year they were ever going to do it. The just was to purchase school supplies and donate them in the middle of the year, once the school supplies began to run out and there were no funds to replenish them. And so they started talking about the school that they've chosen, you know, has the highest level of economically disadvantaged students, and, lo and behold, it's the elementary school that my mom is principal of.
Speaker 3:Yes, and so I knew in that moment like this is a God thing that I'm here in this moment, right now, and from then I just it really opened my eyes to the type of people that are in this community like just very genuine, kindhearted, generous people. And if I hadn't gone to that first meeting, like I don't know what my journey would have been like in the young professionals. But now, seven years later, like I'm exiting chairwoman, so it's just kind of a it's a God thing really that oh yeah, that's how it happened.
Speaker 4:Nothing's by accident.
Speaker 2:No. And then Katie's like I don't want to say 12, because I'm sure not 12. But I think when I finally realized that she's what I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I'm at 29. She's a baby.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess in my head, like when I hear you speak and see how you carry yourself, oh yeah, I definitely. But just not saying like that you look, oh, you definitely don't. But just by seeing how you speak and how you carry yourself, I was like oh she has to be like someone in her 30s or something Like. She has to be on her way out, like she has to be part of that group that's leaving in my head I'm like she has to be and they're like. No, you know I was like.
Speaker 3:Oh, I don't know how to go on it. Okay, Thank you. I said excuse me.
Speaker 4:You're not able.
Speaker 2:All right, that's pretty cool. Well, obviously, let's get into the topic. So I guess my first question is, I guess maybe how would you define a young professional? Or if someone was listening to everything, what comes to the young professional, what would you tell them? Who was the young professional?
Speaker 3:Well by our organization standards one definition is someone aged 21 to 40.
Speaker 4:So I mean, I don't like you know, I really don't like putting it in a box so much.
Speaker 1:Not.
Speaker 4:I don't know, some people feel young right, even though in terms of age they may not be numerically young right. But also, like I think people assume the concept more or associate young professionals with like white collar industry jobs. And it doesn't have to be that like that, doesn't have to be the stigma you can be a young professional and excel in any industry or career.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think one of the things that I'm always asked is I don't have a degree.
Speaker 1:I said girl.
Speaker 2:I mean you just come out, yeah, or I'm not in business for myself, yeah, and I'm like, well, that's cool, I mean if you want to, but you can still come on, whatever you can play.
Speaker 3:One thing that I associate young professionals with is like the word hustle. Yes, Like you're just trying to hustle in life, whether that's your. You work for somebody, you work for yourself. Whatever it is you're doing like you're just hustling, trying to make it, trying to win enough hours in the day to call the day away.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do think sometimes, especially with us having that cut off of 40, sometimes like should it be 45? Because I feel like if anyone else is like me, I'm putting my note 32, I'll be 33 in December. I think that's right, yeah, and I think life is just making sense. So I think for the organization, I thought about that, but anyway, that's one of the topic. But what are some challenges that you guys face as young professionals at this current age state year?
Speaker 3:Well, savannah mentioned one earlier. It's imposter syndrome.
Speaker 2:So what is that? Can you define that for those who may not understand what that?
Speaker 3:is yeah sure. I think imposter syndrome is just the feeling that either A you're not good enough or B you don't deserve to be in the position you're in the situation, the room that you're in, and I think I feel like a lot of young professionals struggle with that, maybe because we're just growing. That's like the stage or growth, growth growth.
Speaker 4:I think what plays into that a lot, though, is one of the struggles I face, alongside the imposter syndrome and what kind of feeds it is having mature co-workers around me or older co-workers around me that I wouldn't say don't get along with me, but maybe they don't know me well enough to know what I am capable of, and so they just assume, because I am as young as I am, that I don't have the life experience or the skill set to necessarily do the job.
Speaker 2:Well, I know we had someone recently asked me and I was like but she's managing people that are older than her. They don't respect her because she's younger. She has the position, the title and I'm assuming the knowledge, but because they're older than her, they're like me, how this? And they don't like listen to what she's saying. She's like what do I do in that situation? I'm like well, that's tough, you don't have to lay the law down, you may piss people off, but they're gonna have to rev it in the day.
Speaker 1:You have that position.
Speaker 2:for a reason, they don't have it.
Speaker 4:I think definitely part of building your skill set as a young professional is learning. One of the hardest things to learn is how to have those difficult conversations, how to navigate them. But I think, knowing to have them at least, like trying to go through the motions of learning them and navigating them, earn yourself things and people see it for what it is, that you are trying to be a professional and a professional way. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Only for some people.
Speaker 4:Right. I mean not everything's going to be perfect.
Speaker 2:Oh, you said oh my, I'm looking for you for your answer and I'm like oh, you're kidding. Yeah, like I already answered, girl, my bad. What would you say for a young professional who maybe, let's say, wants to add to their education? Add to their education?
Speaker 3:I would say it's never too late. You know, the path where you you graduate high school, you go to college and you graduate and then you enter the workforce is not the path for everybody, especially around here. I mean, at&t has a lot of non-traditional students and I think that's amazing because that's people wanting to better their lives.
Speaker 3:You can do that at any age. I'll also say on the flip side of that, you know, if you are not married and you don't have kids, like now's the time to do it, so where it's going to be the most easiest. When I went back for my master's, I didn't necessarily want to go back, but I was like before life advances too much, I'm going to do it. And so it was still tough because I was still on two boards, trying to build my career and do it every day, and I had to come home and do homework. Like it was still tough. But like throw a child or a husband on top of that.
Speaker 1:And I can't eat.
Speaker 3:I imagine so.
Speaker 4:I think the number one barrier that we see in higher education specifically is financial resources is the biggest barrier, and what I have to say to that is specifically for Odessa.
Speaker 4:There are so many resources for traditional, non-traditional, like all walks of life, all lifestyles and circumstances to be able to receive an education on your terms. So, whatever if you have food insecurities, like, the schools are really trying hard to break down every barrier that they can and they've got programs where you, if it's your first time going for a degree, they want to be able to help grow the workforce and become a more educated community, and so you can get your associates or even a bachelor's for muti-pibi for free. And so I think more people should try to tap into those resources, even if it's like a slow and steady kind of race. You can't really take a full load like take advantage of what you can. But yeah, I think that's my biggest piece of advice. I think there are a lot of other schools outside of Odessa, midland area and West Texas in general that are also on the same track of trying to break down all of those barriers. So just see what's out there.
Speaker 3:See what you can do it fits your lifestyle and the time is going to pass anyways. Next year, one year from now, it's going to get here, whether you decide to do one or two classes or not, so why not like take? Advantage of it every day that you have 100%, so yeah, I think I'm like a.
Speaker 2:I think I've been a student at too many different schools. At this point Still not at the grade I'm trying. I'll give it a go.
Speaker 4:Hey, at least you're trying yeah.
Speaker 2:My problem is I'm the person I guess. Honestly, I think I've probably grown out of my blood blood syndrome. I think that was my problem.
Speaker 1:So every job I would get.
Speaker 2:I would be in school for that job. So, like at one point, I wanted to be a teacher. I think that was actually the original reason why I went to school.
Speaker 1:You'd be a great teacher.
Speaker 2:Then I'd be like, yeah, I'm probably supposed to fight somebody's kids Never mind I could do it, I would probably have to be like pre-K. Yeah, I can't get a grown one because they talk too much.
Speaker 4:I feel like you're really tuning into what your spiritual gift is to and finding that out to be your passion. I think that's really important when you are trying to narrow down what you want to do and how you want to move forward.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because a lot of young professionals will go to college and then graduate with something and then enter that workforce and then find like, oh, this is actually not what I'm passionate about in life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm trying to tell you. I was at a class so I did teaching and then I did HR or like human. I don't know what the grade was, but it was something that was centered around because at that time I was working for a company and I was their business manager, hr person. I thought, okay, let me get a figure in this. Then I moved to Texas and then I started at DPS and with DPS, oh, I took something. Before that I was like you took me, because it's a semester. What did I take? Oh, I think it was like general savings or something, but it was sports management. Oh, actually it was the one I should have stuck with. It was marketing.
Speaker 2:And I should have stuck with that one. But I stopped doing it because I went to work at DPS and marketing at DPS Like technically I could move up. But at that time I had a small mind and I didn't think of the fact that I could move to Austin and get a marketing job with the state. Like I didn't think that. I thought in Odessa, what am I doing with a marketing degree? You said the driver's license office.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I was like no, let me get something to go with the driver's license office. So then I started going to school for emergency management and Homeland Security which was completely interesting. I did like a lot of semesters in that, maybe like because I was almost done, because I was in my junior year, but I didn't do it anymore. But I was like, hmm, homeland Security really ain't my thing, like politics if you know me, I run the opposite way yeah, like so emergency management I definitely could have done. I still can.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I really like Kaylee and I have had this conversation before because Kaylee loves working at the bank, she loves who she works for and really enjoys her work. But that's not necessarily her passion, right, and I think that's okay. I think that's okay. I know a lot of people are like, hey, find out what you're good at and then move in that direction. But even if you find something that is good to support your lifestyle and that you're comfortable with doing and it allows you to be able to do your passion, I think that's a good option too, I think I'm just realizing, I think, part of the growth and holding the mirror up to myself is now I can actually tell you what I like to do.
Speaker 2:I think before I was definitely allowing my family and stuff to be like he needs to be doing this.
Speaker 1:A lot of my family they're all like educate.
Speaker 2:A lot of them have degrees and master degrees. So it was like just me. And I'm like, oh hey, to get a degree. I don't know what's going to be in it, Let me just get one or whatever. Whatever job, I'm going to get that. And I realize that this is just not it.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to waste my money, my time cheating for the reason.
Speaker 2:Yes, I did. I'm going to be honest. I'm just stressed and I'm like, no, now I'm like okay, now I know that I actually do enjoy marketing. That's something I do really enjoy, I think, probably when I go back to school.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to say, if I'll go with the wind, I'm going to choose my words correctly, I would find doing like public relations.
Speaker 2:Yeah or like non-profit public relations. Just won't go anytime. One of those ones are something that can lead me to that. That is a culture. That is what I can kind of see myself doing, but it takes a process.
Speaker 3:It does. And I like how you kept, like you said, growth a few times, because it doesn't matter if you're 30 and you haven't gone to school. It all matters is that you're 30 and you have a growth mindset or yeah, 35, 40, whatever. Like, as long as you have a growth mindset, you're going to be successful, whether that's going to school right out of high school whether that's not going to school, or you know? Yeah, whatever, it is the growth mindset. You want to talk to me.
Speaker 2:You want to talk to me, cole. I'm glad that you think I know how to work with my dad, but I don't. I'm going to take it to your mom. I don't know how to find it. I'm going to take it to your mom. Can we give it to mom and do it? Because I'm going to do it. I think one thing that serves as a disadvantage for a lot of people is, I feel like a lot of times we all talk about college in a sense of like the four year degree and the traditional, like degrees you can get.
Speaker 2:I feel like a lot of times we don't talk about the fact that you may just want to go through nails and you may want to open up a nail business or you may just want to become a mechanic and open up your mechanic shop. I feel like a lot of times you're a lineman or an elder I feel like those options a lot of times aren't given in the sense and especially I feel like sometimes I'm not respected as like a professional.
Speaker 4:I don't look the same my husband. Actually he's a fourth generation fireman and he knew from the time he was Cole's age like two he wanted to be a fireman.
Speaker 2:He's like. He's like Cole has all those fire trucks. Yes, in the world.
Speaker 4:But he talks all the time about how he would run into different people, even in like his immediate family, that would tell him, okay, you can do that, that's noble, but you're never going to make any money doing that. Like all of the struggles, same as any kind of manual labor job, like as soon as your body is not able to do it, like, what are you going to do? And his perspective has always been like I want to grow in it and excel and get the certifications and things. So that way, even if I can't do the manual labor portion of it like, I still have some kind of avenue to fall back on. But he's also proven that wrong in that he is very successful financially as a fireman. He's just made the necessary sacrifices to do that, to make it happen. So I think any field of work, especially the technical industries and degrees and things, are fabulous jobs and I think they're overlooked and very underrated for what they are valued for.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because not everyone's willing to do them Right.
Speaker 4:I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3:My fiance is alignment. I don't want to be alignment, but he's very good at it. He's done very well in it.
Speaker 4:They make some serious money. Thank you for my wife Trissy.
Speaker 1:Excuse me, my life is out. He's not aligned in a song course.
Speaker 2:I think it's just crazy, though, because even now, like, I feel like with the kids at the church, a lot of times you hear them talking about what they want to do, and I just wish a lot of times people would just be more open minded even to just being an entrepreneur, and I think it's giving more respect to that, because you know, how you said earlier, being a young professional is the hustle. I mean, the number one job that requires some hustle is an entrepreneur. Oh yeah, because if you don't do it, you don't eat.
Speaker 4:Yeah there's a girl I follow on Instagram. Her name's Lauren Goforth. She grew up in this teeny, tiny little town in East Texas, near me. And we didn't know each other in high school, but I knew her through other people as we were growing up, and I see her now. She opened her own salon in Dallas. She just went to cosmetology school and decided, like I'm going to do this, this is what I want to do, but I want to be successful at it.
Speaker 4:Like I don't want to stay here and limit myself, and so now she's going to like this Las Vegas hair show that she's nominated for awards for every year and it's just such an inspirational journey to have seen her go through and like her success now and where she is.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that just made me think of something that kind of I feel like as a young professional. You for one, have to have self confidence, especially today, be able to walk into, like some board meetings, or to be able to lead a team that's older than you. Like you have to own, like you, I want to do that work. You have to be that girl. I'm going to sit on the outside and then also I think it's important to have a tribe around you as you're in that growing state, like, have a mentor.
Speaker 2:I think, honestly, it's important to have a mentor and a mentee. I feel like if someone is investing in you, if you have the time to invest in someone else, I believe you should Right. Obviously you know what you're capable of, time wise, and if you're even capable to mentor, but if you are, I think it's important. A lot of times I feel like those times when I'm able to sit down with someone who's younger than me and they're asking me questions or seeking advice from me or something I learned. As they're asking me or listening to them, tell me, hey, you know what's going on in your life right now, what's going on, and listening to them and having those open into conversations, I feel like I've learned from those. So I just think having some confidence and not like in a way of like vein or yeah, but just knowing, like on my computer right now, it I got it from Aaron it says don't shrink and don't puff up, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's where I'm at right now, like wait what? Say it again, don't shrink.
Speaker 2:Don't shrink or don't puff up.
Speaker 1:I find a lot of times when you walk into something new.
Speaker 2:either you're going to shrink, meaning you're not going to say anything. Yeah, like you don't know, Are you going to puff up and you're going to like overdo it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Just be authentic, yeah basically yeah, yeah. Yeah, I feel like a lot of times, you know, like when people ask you like, oh, how are you? And it's just very conversational. I'm not very good at being like I'm good, how are you? No, I'm like well, you know, it's been a real crazy day. A little sweaty right now.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm just like too authentic sometimes. So I think there's a balance you have to find.
Speaker 3:But I do like that, like don't puff, don't shrink, just just be you. You know, I feel like I'm not kind of like you.
Speaker 2:But even with trying, like being in this space where you're having to like be professional it's sometimes I struggle because I'm the one that's probably laughing loud in the back, I'm the one that's going to ask the question that no one else is probably going to ask. That's just me. But I'm now realizing that I can still be that person. You just kind of have to like curve it in a way yeah, it's important, I'm not going to say I'm not wrong about the wrong time. I'm also owning it. That that's just me. And I'm still learning, but not in a way like owning it towards, like I won't change, but it is what it is at that point. But I guess how? The idea of like having that self confidence and being a professional how important do you guys think that is? And having the village around you?
Speaker 3:Well, I think you have professional struggle with self confidence because, like imposter syndrome, is the the antagonist to that self confidence. But I do think that whenever you present yourself at the level of self confidence, like people realize that. So it's very important to have that in situations as a professional where you're trying to like present well.
Speaker 3:You know, and whatever you have to do to give yourself that confidence, do it Like this year. I had to give the speech at Odessa under 40. Plug OU 40. If you have never been to our gala. This is a whole quote from my field. Yes, young professionals of Odessa under 40 gala, anyway. So I had to give a speech right, because chairwoman gives a speech and so last year I was also chairwoman. I had to give a speech, and last year I had the most nightmare situation happen. I had written my speech word for word on my iPad because that's the word for me, word for word for now and when I got up there my iPad was gone and so it was just this whole flustered moment. Anyway, somebody had moved my iPad under the thing, so I had to fumble and find my iPad, and by that time I was just so nervous when I gave my speech.
Speaker 3:And so this year, knowing that I wanted to be more confident. Up there I wrote my speech, I practiced it for days, I recorded it, I listened to it, I said it to myself in the mirror, like that's what I needed. That's what I needed to bring up my self confidence.
Speaker 1:So it's important to also know like what it is.
Speaker 3:You need to have the confidence and then do it, make it happen.
Speaker 4:Right, and for those who weren't there, kaylee's speech was really good this year. Thank you.
Speaker 1:She did have a lot of self confidence. I heard you guys were working.
Speaker 2:Now you know the back side of what I was saying.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, follow up.
Speaker 4:I think on the self confidence it's important to have, but you grow into it, so you do. The more you practice it, being confident or presenting yourself that way, the easier it comes, the more natural it is, and it's important to have your tribe there to supporting it. That to me is like the number one, like finding your people, and we've had several conversations, kaylee, about that, specifically when we've talked to people who are interested in Young Professionals of Odessa about us being a tribe. And it's easier when you're with people who also have that growth mindset and want to do better and have goals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because then you know, going back to that specific example, savannah Romero, everybody, I mean y'all don't know who Romero is. I forget I'm talking to, like my friends here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we all run in the same circle.
Speaker 3:Anyways, my tribe came up afterwards and was like oh, you did so good, you did so amazing and like where would I be if I didn't have y'all support? You know what I mean. Like it just means the world to have people see you and compliment you and think highly of you, not from like a vain perspective, it just feels good in your soul, yeah you know to have that positive energy.
Speaker 2:Plus, I feel like being a part of Young Professionals, you get different opportunities that you wouldn't usually get if you were. I guess a Young Professional outside the good world.
Speaker 4:You may get it. It just may not come as easy. I think it's what you put into it. You get out for sure, Because we have all types of members. We have members that are not very active, and so they probably don't receive a lot of benefit from it, but we have, you know, those who are very active and are consistently showing up and do receive more benefit from their membership.
Speaker 2:I think I've had more self growth in the last four or five months. I've learned my leadership style. I've learned that I need to stop taking on so much. I've learned that I'm the person you call when you need to be closed. I can probably help you started. But I can definitely help you. Like, if you tell me hey, this is my plan, can you hold me accountable? Yes, I'm your girl for that.
Speaker 2:I learned a lot about myself from being a part of a group, which I think is amazing. In a sense. I can help you grow, but I'm actually helping myself grow. At the same time, I'm realizing that I can curve my words a little bit to be able to say the same message, but say it nicely, because I really do mean it nicely. But a lot of times it comes up very blunt.
Speaker 4:I think it's important to bring up to a conversation. You and I had Yanni the other day when we were walking about how we were discussing something about not everyone in YPO right now is on the same level in their professional journey or self-development or leadership style journey. That is okay, because the point of the organization and the point of us as a tribe really is to be able to help each other get where we are uniquely supposed to be.
Speaker 2:On that, journey, I think, also realizing that just because I like the community and I would like to maybe one day serve the community, that's not the same for everyone else, like they just may want to grow and grow as a leader, but that may be it. So it's the fact that, like I guess, just respecting boundaries, the time comes back too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's another thing that I wish I would have told myself when I was younger that I knew when I was younger is the concept of boundaries because, in my effort to like be in the room you know be the one that people would go to and whatever, because it was all about me, whatever. Anyways, in that I forgot how to say no.
Speaker 2:I still struggle with that Girl stop.
Speaker 3:Don't ask me anything right now, because I'll say yes, that's why I'm here. Also a joke I'm here because I genuinely want to be. I'm good. She said no.
Speaker 2:I really know why she said yes, I know.
Speaker 3:Seriously, like when I was younger. I just didn't know how to say no, because I didn't know what the concept of boundaries was.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 3:I didn't realize that by saying yes to volunteering at this thing, I was saying no to spending time with my loved ones or whatever it is. There's a balance that you have to find. It is, I feel, like my duty to give back to those around me, but those around me also includes my family, my fiance, my friend, things like that. So boundaries?
Speaker 2:I think I looked up because some of the guys I'm dating a lot of times are doing stuff. We're doing it together.
Speaker 1:So that makes it easier because my previous ex no.
Speaker 2:We had completely different mindsets and that was, I think, one of the reasons it led to divorce, because I have a heart to serve, the heart for the community. So he didn't at all and I can probably say try to dim the light there.
Speaker 2:That was there. So this around I was like, oh no, like if you don't rock with it or you're going to respect it. So this time I think I have a mixture of both. That makes it good. But you do have a point there, because a lot of my family is like, hey, I don't see you and I'm like, well, if they do see me, they're probably catching me out at any minute.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because I am saying yes to quite a few things and it's good you know that we want to say yes to stuff. That means we care.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that means yes, but the problem is burnout's real. Well, that too.
Speaker 2:We can talk to them now, but I'm going to say it and if someone order here and wants to talk about it, we can have a conversation. But I feel like a lot of times the older generation, I feel like is giving the younger generation all the dirty jobs. Like we're having to almost go back and clean up some like some systems and some programs, and then I'd be like okay, I'm going to do the ones. I'm in, right, so that's the case.
Speaker 1:Like they're giving us a lot. It's a lot of work.
Speaker 2:And but it's all of the work that they don't want to do. So it's not actually teaching you anything. You're not teaching about the board you're on. They're just giving you all the work, the manual labor part of it, which can create the burnout and can mess up the, I guess the love for serving. Because, you're putting the bad environment, but burnout is real.
Speaker 4:Have you all experienced burnout? Oh yeah, we just looked at each other and we're like, yeah, I'm on the same side, I'm about to. Yeah, I mean I'm not sure. I guess I didn't realize what burnout was when I had my first like go of it or first experience with it, and so now I'm able to recognize it and I know quit fasting and a hurry when I'm running into it and that is something that I'm really trying to work on personally is not filling up my plate, being able to say no and recognizing farther out in advance what I am actually capable of taking on. So, I mean, I'm not perfect at it by any means, it is really hard to do, but I did it.
Speaker 2:Burnouts tough.
Speaker 4:And especially if you're getting burnout doing something that you love to do, just feel so bad yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean it burnout like takes the energy out of you. It takes you to negative. Like you know, I'll say it, in my previous job I would I didn't realize how much Emotional, like mental energy I was using just to show up every day, like it took so much out of me that it impacted my ability to do my job because I was just like, okay, I'm here, made it, yeah, another day, but like it's, it's real, it takes it out of you to where you just can't even function properly.
Speaker 2:No, I thought that's what's my old job, and I stayed there six months.
Speaker 3:Well, I was that little drop six years no.
Speaker 2:I did six months and I was like, yeah, and that also brings up something else. I feel like a lot of times as a professional we stay on stuff too long and we deal with like the we have to have a sense of loyalty almost. Not mean, it's true, but I want to be like forget them. They don't care about you half the time anyway, because if something happens to you, they're gonna place you. Always try to come Sometimes. You just know.
Speaker 4:I like the stigma that young professionals Don't have that sense of loyalty, though I think it is that we don't want to put up with the the negative and the the disrespect sometimes, or I'm gonna say it's loyal, but we're not the lowest.
Speaker 2:Let a ployer load to ourselves.
Speaker 1:Yes, in our values and our morals.
Speaker 2:That's where we're loyal to that, and they did like.
Speaker 1:I said you can be loyal to that job.
Speaker 2:Something happened to you or you can't show the word and your job be on handy before you go out the door. Good, yeah, yes, so don't say yourself for the job, I am a big leadership is from the top down.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and so, specifically for me as a working mom, it is a game changer. Working under your ship that are also working moms yes, they get it, and that's something that, in this season, matches my lifestyle and is something that's really important to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because, I may try to understand it, but I just won't twist a degree because I don't have, you know, a little one at home to understand with how that adds to it, but something I want to share with you guys.
Speaker 1:So today, Just into the sermon.
Speaker 2:I did so, so it was the help with the headiness.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I kind of this conversation right now. I feel like it's the points that he made at the end. I think they're very fitting. So the whole point of it was how, what I gathered. Anyway, we all like these columns on our lives and we're out doing all this amazing things, but there's times where we're doing good but it just becomes heavy and it becomes a lot and it's like what do you do with that? So, either, just some pointers that Patrick Cliff gave hope alive this morning. So it was commit to rest, invest your relationship with God. I Get some people, so have your tribe, so me, and you have someone that you can say hey, I'm tired, or like that person can look at you and say like, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2:Yeah and they could help carry that load for you. And so it's not, you're still keeping. The last one is keep your eyes on the price. So you're still able to keep your eyes on the prize. But then you have your tribe that come along excited you and we carry the load, so where you can still get it, the job done. And I just I was like when he was talking this morning I was like dude, it's so crazy because this time so I just be like Not ready, and then there's either phone calls that I happen, or you know someone to check in, or Aaron, be like yeah, aaron is so good at that, so.
Speaker 3:I'll just call him and be like hey, you know, blah, blah, blah, have been conversation. He's like what's the matter? And I'm like, well, yes, how did you know?
Speaker 4:Yes, he's so good at that. That's the type of person I want my child, though, yeah yeah people who know me authentically and can recognize and support and encourage me.
Speaker 2:When wrong, you like bro.
Speaker 1:I was hoping that she was mine gonna know this, yeah, and then you know this is, but he is good at that.
Speaker 2:He'll call it out and he'll sit there listening and give you a. I Having someone like him, I hope that if you guys don't I said it before I'm like If you don't have an area, I find you one, but he's. But he's a good like. He'll listen to your problem. He's gonna help you find a solution for the problem.
Speaker 4:So where it's not just. I hate my job and you're having like a vent session.
Speaker 2:Like you're listening.
Speaker 4:And then they say okay, here's the action.
Speaker 1:What are we gonna do about it? What are we gonna?
Speaker 2:move. What are you gonna do? Um. I think it's important yeah it's just vending, especially when it's not a healthy environment. Really, I mean, you may feel better for those two seconds, but you don't go back to the same situation again if you haven't figured out how to, I Guess, change it and make it better. So is there anything that I'm forgetting about? Young professional, anything you want to?
Speaker 1:add.
Speaker 2:Or maybe, if you any advice you would give a young professionalist like losing hope.
Speaker 4:Well, I would be very hard-pressed as the membership liaison if I was not plugging signing up for my PM. I think just really doing some self reflection, setting goals for yourself and finding people who are a part of your tribe and evaluating what a tribe is. So it's not just people that are going out with you and partying every night and want to Hear you then and then not be fruitful from it. It's people who are gonna tell you and have those hard Conversations with you because they want you to be a better person.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would say to a young professional losing hope like Sometimes it's hard to see a way out of our situations like one, especially when we're real deep in it. And so one thing that I have started telling myself and Y'all are gonna think this is so silly, but earlier I was telling Um, yanni and Savannah listeners, I'm talking to you um, I was telling them that I'm a Disney fanatic. And so One thing that I tell myself I picked up from one of my favorite movies ever frozen frozen to, actually, and we watched it today out. And so Princess Anna finds herself in this Dark, dark cave, in this dark, dark moment in her life where she thinks her sister has just died and the song that she sings is Do the next right thing, oh yes. And so she's in this place of grief and sadness and she tells herself, like just do the next right thing, which in that moment, is just get out of the cave. Right, she's an actual cave, and so that's what I have told myself.
Speaker 3:In situations where I'm really down, I'm like just do the next right thing. You know, if I'm at work and I'm just really not feeling it, just do the next right thing, just, you know, check your checklist and see what it is you can get done like, even if you don't feel like it or If you hate your job or you know. Whatever the situation is, do the next right thing and get your resume prepped and then see how you feel after that. You know, one step at a time is sometimes how we just have to take it.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna have to write that down somewhere. I think, minds is Don't be afraid to start over yes, and start over as many times as you need to. I think as you get older, you learn more, more about yourself. We realize you're a man like that and that's okay, but at the same time, have the courage and the faith that you need to step out and try something new. Oh yeah, it relies that if that don't work, you can just keep going, drive something out I mean, obviously, eventually over the land on something stable but just don't be afraid to start over, and no one's perfect yeah so therefore you're not perfect, therefore I'm not perfect.
Speaker 2:So don't go in the mindset or go into situation thinking you have to be perfect and then so I'm reading. Well, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1:I'm listening to Tom the cabinets.
Speaker 2:I'm not reading that I'm reading the Michelle Obama book. But and one of the things that he talked about that I cannot get out of my head is, a lot of times when we are setting habits, we base it off of like a goal, but we don't look at the strategy to get to the goal. So if we're just focused on you know, I want to lose 20 pounds, only 20 pounds, I'm only 20 pounds but you're not looking at the strategy to get to the 20 like.
Speaker 1:What does your diet look?
Speaker 2:like what is your gym routine? Look like how much water are you drinking, how much rest are you getting? Like if you're not setting that up correctly, you're not going to be able to get to that goal. Yeah so I would just say, you know, as a benefit, look at your goal, we're looking at that goal, look at that strategy to get to that goal and make sure that you're not Putting more than you put that you can actually handle. Let's be realistic here, like if you can't go to school right now or maybe you can go and take one class.
Speaker 2:Take the one class and pass it. Yeah, don't put four on your plate if you can't do four. Right, so that's what we have. If you would like to become a member of Young Professionals, I will Probably just link it on the Facebook page, probably the easiest way to do that. Yeah, that's the best way. For let's go. Maybe still, our events we have coming up for young professionals If anybody may be listening to this and they're like hey, I want to come hang out with y'all. I think y'all selling y'all some bomb chicks, which we are Our next event is we have yoga night coming up in September on I believe is the 28th.
Speaker 4:Yes and that will be at stomping grounds from six to eight yes, and then we will have bowling with YPO in October, also, yeah. And then we'll have our kickoff party in January, which is open to all the community. Of course, we want everyone to come to all of our events, but if you really want to find out more about us and Get to meet everyone, then the kickoff mixer is a really good event to come to you.
Speaker 3:There's also a book club.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's October 7th. At Jason's Valley, I think we only have one on the desk, so I can just say Jason's Daily right.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, 1130 to 1. We are reading critical conversations because, once again at YPO, we're about growth here. So if you can't have a conversation, what you're doing? So we're trying to set you guys up, including myself, for success with being able to communicate. So, yeah, that's not. Yeah, I think that's it. Oh, my last question, before one of you guys prays, is what do you stand for? And that could be as simple as like one thing, or you can list a bunch.
Speaker 4:I stand for doing what is Right, and that is very hard to do a lot of times, but I have a clear conscience if I know that I'm at least doing what's right.
Speaker 3:I Am gonna answer your question by reading you my personal mission statement.
Speaker 2:You have a personal mission statement.
Speaker 3:Yes, I do. I do have a personal mission statement.
Speaker 2:I'm fighting like I thought I'm gonna make one myself.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, so I'll just tell you why I crafted one. To begin with, I went to a Women in banking seminar this past March and one of the speakers it was basically like a personal branding session and she was just talking about like Finding, finding the why and whatever it is that you do right and that doesn't just apply to banking, obviously. So she kind of leaded us, leaded I can't speak English, I'm sorry. She led us through this personal mission statement crafting and so it was so funny because a lot of people were like, well, I don't really know what to say. The Just of it was I strive for this by doing this you know and like for me in that moment.
Speaker 3:It was so easy for me to come up with and I just credit that not to myself but just to, like you know, being connected to God and having a relationship with him. Like all the things I do every day, I try to tie back to him. So, anyways, long story short. This is my personal mission statement. I Strive to be a light to those around me by serving. In leading, I strive to inspire others to also have a positive impact on those around them.
Speaker 2:It's like long. I love that. I feel like we need to have a when it's time we do that vision board. You need to have like a how people make their mission statement.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because it really I Mean it. Whatever it is that you do in life, the why you're doing it is the most important reason. I mean the thing like if you don't know why you're doing it, you're never gonna find happiness or peace or joy in anything that you're doing. That's what. I stand for.
Speaker 4:I think that's everyone's homework is to create a personal mission statement now, I'm sure, okay, I have one question.
Speaker 2:I realize that's the most important question that I can believe we forgot. Oh God is now. How is your faith play part in you being a young professional?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think it helps in my confidence something to fall back on and I I Kaley and I had a very great conversation where Kaylee was telling me about a Speaker she listened to, and Kaylee go ahead and speak a little bit about that, because I think that's important and this is one of my pillars.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so her name is Julie Schneers, and she talks about Identifying pillars and using them to Make your decisions based off of, and the reason that you do all this is this is how you leave a legacy. You know, what type of legacy do you want to leave behind? What do you want to be remembered for? And so the first step in answering that what do you want to be remembered for? Is identifying three to four pillars, and the pillars are things that are important to you and that you value.
Speaker 3:You know it can be family, god, truth, equality. You know anything, it's different for anybody, right? But you use those pillars to help you. So when somebody comes to you and says, hey, do you want to be on the board of XYZ, okay I'm. Before I say yes or no, I'm going to evaluate, based on my pillars, if this is going to contribute to those things.
Speaker 4:So I think that I really made an impact on me when Kaylee and I had that discussion and so now, moving through my leadership journey and professional journey, all of my decisions I have Made based on that, but my faith is also Leaved into each one of those pillars, and so does this support my faith and does it ultimately support the legacy that I want to leave behind?
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think For me how faith impacts. You know my journey as a young professional. God calls us to be the light of the world in the Bible, and so to me that's a big statement, right, the light of the world. The world is a big place. Well, break it down. That means being the light of your community, mm-hmm. The light of your family, you know, the light of whatever circle it is, you run in the light of the job that you're. Whatever it is, you're called to be the light of the world and so, as a professional, I've just clung to that and sometimes I cling to it better than others, right, because we're not perfect. But I'm called to be a light to this community, and so In my professional job, I do that by helping businesses grow and prosper.
Speaker 3:And in my volunteer circle, I mean Delivering a meal to an elderly person. That's being a light. You know delivering. You know boxes, putting boxes in the, in the cars as they come through for the food bank that's being a light. And it's not a hard task, you know like it's such a simple thing, but it's amazing how much joy it brings you Inside, like anytime send over at Mills on wheels is like hey, we really, really need somebody. Can you please pick up a route, if I can do it?
Speaker 2:I mean, it makes my day, you know it's just so that was me that Thursday or Friday when I was like I'm having the best day and it's Friday, it's not yeah, but you know, yeah, Like I'm like I don't think people realize how I think they get stuck on the word like volunteering, but they don't realize how, as much as you are doing something for someone else, you know, they don't realize how much your I don't know I get more out of volunteering.
Speaker 2:Then sometimes I feel like the people who are volunteering get from me. Yeah, like the idea of doing like Mills on wheels and going to those homes and seeing like their face when they get the meals, or Seeing something, a living situation.
Speaker 1:It's a very humbling experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it makes it to where. Yes, when she does call, you pick up that phone and you're like, yep, let me go ahead. And then even like bouncing with the youth when we have that event in Midland and it was the kids from a Midland team court.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm where, at the end of it, they were just telling Aaron and I thank you, we're like dude, what do we like? We didn't do nothing and they were like, well, just thank you for like listening to us, yeah, and making us feel like important. Yeah, people feel like you are important. They are, they have feelings, they have voices. It needs to be heard. But I just, I don't know, every time I volunteer, it's always a a good Reset for me.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm and it kind of just it helps me keep going. Yeah, they're like to where, like right now I have closer in my car for crisis center and their text to me.
Speaker 1:You pick up.
Speaker 2:Reason my phone went off earlier was I'm on Friday looking for Bibles for kids for the Youth detention center and she finally has the Bibles. She's calling me to pick up the Bible so we can take them over there and then can you just thanks to me. And she has closed for the Harmony home. So it's like he said. I do agree with you. I'm realizing that your mission statement can very much so be mine, because that's been there. We're very similar, I think. Volunteer, if I saw people who haven't done it. Find whatever you're passionate about.
Speaker 2:Your passion may not be my passion. Are you passionate about animals? I, personally, I think politely, don't care about it, don't hate me, don't stop listening. I just animals is not my thing, but it's whatever you're passionate about. Get plugged in and I promise you, just give it six months and it'll make a difference in your life. Yes, I stand by. Wherever I can, I can help that they have the sober walk over the weekend and I would open one of my projects.
Speaker 2:I didn't personally lose anyone to fit in all but you, hearing everyone else's stories and how I'm really can affect and how it's really Effective in youth and getting to them. I'm like, shoot, let me go stand alongside of you. So that do Really carefully use. So I think that was another way for me, or into them without directly pouring into them, and I'm having fun People and you hear people's stories.
Speaker 1:I don't know why.
Speaker 3:I'm so into hearing everyone's stories, but I am yeah well, because it's like it's just interesting to hear people's perspective on things and you see why they like the things. They do make sense when you hear where they came from, and it's very interesting to see that.
Speaker 2:You know, and I feel like a lot of time. That's why they're so like, much like. I don't like you. It's how does that we just stop and have a conversation to get to know the person? Yes, you know, all makes sense but a lot of times, either Both parties don't want to talk or it's not a safe place to be able to talk, which is once again why I created this podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm like, hey, I want to have come with my friends our real topics and I want to make it to where it's a comfortable space for them. You know when I started always say hey, is there anything that you guys do not want me to share? Good in the day, I'm asking you to come on here and, you know, spit your guts, and I want to make sure you guys feel comfortable. I don't want to make it to where it's like, you know, I don't ask the question or you tell me not to say something. Here I am saying like you will never come back, and then I also don't want to be a part of the reason why someone stumbles. I never want that.
Speaker 1:So I just try to pay something to say to where Therapy this is to me.
Speaker 2:I wanted to be for you guys.
Speaker 3:There's some looks going on in the room. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 2:No problem. No problem, we're gonna start up the white P O Podcast. Call you having anything you want to tell people. He said hi.
Speaker 1:Okay, no, we're just gonna be forever now you heard him, though.
Speaker 2:He's here. You want. Daddy, are you ready to leave? He's packing up, y'all he said, alright, I don't know who I should throw out paper scissors. But who's praying?
Speaker 3:Here we go. Dear heavenly father, we got Hold on listeners. Maybe Cole wants to pray.
Speaker 2:Do you want to?
Speaker 1:pray no.
Speaker 3:All right. We count to you, heavenly father, grateful for this space, grateful for the conversations that we have had today, grateful that we can rely on one another as friends, as a tribe, as People who are in a growth mindset, who are going to help us grow, and all that we do. We thank you for this community and for the chance that you give us every day to wake up and to have a positive impact on it. I want to say a prayer for all the young professionals who are?
Speaker 3:listening and, even if they're not in professionals, anyone under the sound of our voices, that you will guide them and leave them in the decisions that they make. And Maybe, if they're not in a place right now where they they feel like they can reach out to you, or maybe they feel like they can't hear your voice, I would ask that you help them grow closer to you because, at the end of the day, you want us to have an abundant life full of blessings, and we thank you for that. So, once again, please be with all of us. Thank you for this conversation and for these wonderful ladies here at the table today. We love you and we ask all this and proud this.
Speaker 2:Your prayer was like yeah, yeah. See that because you're such a safe space that I can see that. Yes, all right. So those who are listening, just remember that you were loved. You were unique. God does not make mistakes In the world. Need you? I don't know what the one you before you only know that question you and the Lord, but the Lord needs you. So Peace out, have a great Weekend. Second, when I drop, is it a Friday? Oh yeah weekend and and Go be awesome. I.