Feb. 5, 2026
The Secret to Solving Your Midlife Identity Crisis - with Dr. Salma Samaha
Dr. Samaha is one of those people who just radiates light. She’s a former academic who decided to retire early at 53 to follow a mission that was pulling at her heart.
She’s navigated over 30 years of transitions, some by choice and many by chance, including relocating from Lebanon to Canada and moving through everything from divorce to empty nesting.
She’s truly a "momentum master" who figured out how to stop just surviving change and start actually loving the life she was designing.
We really got into the heart of what it means to grow stronger rather than just older. Salma shared her "Same Roots, New Fruits" philosophy, which is such a refreshing way to look at midlife. It’s not about starting from zero or having a crisis; it’s about using the deep roots you already have to grow something fresh and vibrant.
One of my favorite parts of our talk was her "outdoor anchor" concept. It is so simple but so deep. She talked about how even just looking at the sky or catching a sunset can reset your entire nervous system and remind you that endings can be just as beautiful as beginnings.
If you’ve been feeling like you’re just drifting or stuck in a bit of a midlife rut, you need to hear Salma’s energy. She’s living proof that you can wake up every morning feeling genuinely excited for the day, no matter what chapter you're in.
Connect with Dr. Salma Samaha:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-salma-samaha/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsalmasamaha/
Self Audit your Midlife!
https://go.midlifetransitionbydesign.com/challenge-freebie
Thank you for spending time with me today on the Thrive After 45™ podcast! If this episode spoke to you, be sure to hit that follow button so you never miss one.
And if you loved it, I’d be so grateful if you left a review - it helps more amazing women like you find this show!
Your journey doesn’t stop here - let’s keep the conversation going! Connect with me at denisedrinkwalter.com, and follow @thethriveafter45podcast for daily insp, tips, and support.
Remember, midlife isn’t the end - it’s just the beginning of a new, exciting chapter! Keep thriving, keep shining, and I’ll see you next time!
WEBVTT
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.730
Hello and welcome to today's episode of Thrive after 45.
00:00:05.831 --> 00:00:10.811
I'm Denise Drink Walter heart whisperer, midlife mirror and mentor.
00:00:10.811 --> 00:00:23.647
And every week I am so honored to share energy and space with inspiring guests whose stories reflect so many possibilities of thriving beyond 45.
00:00:23.647 --> 00:00:33.097
Together, we uncover the whispers of the heart, the power of midlife transformation, and the wisdom that fuels expansion.
00:00:33.219 --> 00:00:45.670
What if the transition you are facing right now isn't a setback, but the spark that could ignite the greatest momentum of your entire midlife?
00:00:46.101 --> 00:00:53.601
It's an honor and an absolute privilege to welcome and introduce Selma Omaha to our show today.
00:00:53.601 --> 00:01:03.142
Selma is a midlife momentum mentor, and she has lived more life transitions than most of us could ever imagine.
00:01:03.142 --> 00:01:09.891
Some by choice, many by chance, and through it all, she became known as the momentum master.
00:01:09.891 --> 00:01:20.811
Because people watched her navigate change with courage, creativity, and this uncanny ability to find solutions that were outside of the box.
00:01:20.811 --> 00:01:25.671
She brings over 25 years of experience and human behavior.
00:01:25.671 --> 00:01:28.882
Land connection and outdoor wellness.
00:01:28.882 --> 00:01:39.652
She spent eight years working directly with people in major life transitions, and over the last three years, she's chosen to focus exclusively on Midlifers.
00:01:40.756 --> 00:01:48.195
Because at age 53 herself, this season is not theoretical.
00:01:48.195 --> 00:01:51.945
She understands it from the inside out.
00:01:51.945 --> 00:01:55.456
Selma's impact has already been felt far and wide.
00:01:55.456 --> 00:02:08.215
Her content has grown organically to reach more than 20,000 people, and she has already directly supported over 1000 Midlifers through her coaching speaking workshops.
00:02:08.634 --> 00:02:09.625
Community work.
00:02:09.625 --> 00:02:22.914
But what makes Selma extraordinary is her gift for guiding Midlifers who feel like they're drifting in empty nesting career changes relocations divorce.
00:02:23.930 --> 00:02:31.819
Retirement and helping them design an active, intentional life that they truly, truly love.
00:02:31.819 --> 00:02:35.599
That's grounded in purpose, presence, and progress.
00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.800
This conversation is going to shift something in you.
00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.300
You're going to feel it.
00:02:41.670 --> 00:02:49.561
So thank you so much, Selma for joining us today and sharing your wisdom, gifts, and talents.
00:02:49.956 --> 00:02:51.852
I'm so happy to, to be here.
00:02:51.852 --> 00:02:57.042
Denise, thank you for the invitation and uh, for the mission you're doing.
00:02:57.042 --> 00:03:00.822
You're doing amazing work, so really thank you for that.
00:03:02.051 --> 00:03:02.981
Thank you.
00:03:02.981 --> 00:03:06.792
And we're here to talk about, oh my gosh.
00:03:06.792 --> 00:03:11.592
I, I read the information that came through and I've been watching you for a while now.
00:03:11.622 --> 00:03:13.512
'cause we connected a while ago.
00:03:13.722 --> 00:03:13.812
Yeah.
00:03:13.812 --> 00:03:13.901
And.
00:03:14.861 --> 00:03:15.882
Oh my goodness.
00:03:15.882 --> 00:03:21.852
There is something real and grounded in your presence.
00:03:22.092 --> 00:03:26.741
Was it always like that or is this something that's been building over time?
00:03:28.782 --> 00:03:33.671
You know, I must say I'm, I go with the flow.
00:03:34.361 --> 00:03:41.532
Like, uh, I experienced so many transitions and like instability is part of my daily life.
00:03:42.072 --> 00:03:42.581
That I embrace it.
00:03:44.021 --> 00:03:50.622
I embrace it with joy, and it's like, okay, what's coming next?
00:03:50.622 --> 00:03:51.401
I'm ready.
00:03:51.822 --> 00:03:55.752
That's why I'm like, I feel I'm ready to that.
00:03:55.752 --> 00:03:56.826
Like, uh, mm-hmm.
00:03:58.991 --> 00:04:05.262
I, yeah, that, that's why I literally studied how I overcame all these transitions.
00:04:05.637 --> 00:04:07.826
And now I have my framework.
00:04:07.887 --> 00:04:09.296
Okay, let's start.
00:04:09.296 --> 00:04:11.757
First step, second step.
00:04:11.757 --> 00:04:14.512
It's uh, it becomes like automatical.
00:04:15.026 --> 00:04:15.806
Yeah.
00:04:15.866 --> 00:04:16.617
Okay.
00:04:16.976 --> 00:04:18.896
So I love that.
00:04:18.896 --> 00:04:26.757
So you did a study of yourself growing through all of the pains that match you.
00:04:28.482 --> 00:04:29.232
You know?
00:04:29.291 --> 00:04:29.862
Yes.
00:04:30.132 --> 00:04:31.062
Okay.
00:04:31.062 --> 00:04:32.862
Uh, just to give you an example.
00:04:32.862 --> 00:04:33.221
Yeah.
00:04:33.911 --> 00:04:42.797
How many transitions I faced, like my more than 30 years old, uh, friend Charles, he will tell me the only constant.
00:04:45.326 --> 00:04:46.122
Hair, that's all.
00:04:48.877 --> 00:04:51.101
So really so empty.
00:04:51.101 --> 00:04:55.817
Nesting, career changes, relocation, divorce, uh, early retirement.
00:04:55.976 --> 00:05:00.851
I early retired at 50 to focus on this, uh, wow.
00:05:00.851 --> 00:05:01.752
Life transition.
00:05:02.562 --> 00:05:08.442
Really, I wanted to make it my mission because I realized not everyone is, uh.
00:05:10.002 --> 00:05:16.122
Is building the successfully through midlife, through life transitions in general.
00:05:16.122 --> 00:05:16.211
Right?
00:05:17.262 --> 00:05:19.062
And especially midlife transitions.
00:05:19.541 --> 00:05:21.612
And it's especially midlife.
00:05:21.641 --> 00:05:26.802
It's like, it's like the copy paste to say, ah, it's midlife crisis.
00:05:26.802 --> 00:05:29.262
What's this midlife crisis?
00:05:29.651 --> 00:05:30.942
It's your wake up call.
00:05:30.942 --> 00:05:32.471
For me, it's a wake up call.
00:05:32.471 --> 00:05:32.682
Remember?
00:05:34.156 --> 00:05:34.507
Right?
00:05:35.146 --> 00:05:36.547
Remember to, to look.
00:05:37.851 --> 00:05:38.541
Differently.
00:05:38.547 --> 00:05:38.846
Differently.
00:05:39.146 --> 00:05:40.797
Change your perspective.
00:05:41.156 --> 00:05:41.396
Right.
00:05:41.427 --> 00:05:55.437
For me, it was like this, and it was like every time I was able to build a better and better chapter, uh, that I'm looking forward to wake up every morning.
00:05:56.516 --> 00:05:56.786
Love that.
00:05:57.357 --> 00:06:06.262
You know, there's so many people, so many people globally who absolutely desire to have what you just shared.
00:06:07.166 --> 00:06:18.596
Just to have the ability, the capacity to wake up every morning, just so grateful and joyful because your feet get to hit the floor for another day.
00:06:19.286 --> 00:06:22.617
Yes, and everybody who I have had.
00:06:23.487 --> 00:06:32.547
Contact with, had conversations with, have had, you know, different exchanges with are looking outside of themselves for that.
00:06:32.817 --> 00:06:39.507
And that's where you're, you're shaking your head no, because those of you who are in podcast land don't see the visual.
00:06:39.507 --> 00:06:41.216
If you're on YouTube, you're gonna see it.
00:06:41.216 --> 00:06:47.007
But there was a huge smile on SSA's face and a, no, that's not how it works, girl.
00:06:47.516 --> 00:06:48.476
It isn't, is it?
00:06:48.476 --> 00:06:49.497
It's not outside.
00:06:50.096 --> 00:06:52.617
It's your, it's your cap.
00:06:52.737 --> 00:06:56.096
Everybody has the ability to do this Absolutely.
00:06:56.156 --> 00:06:57.206
Every single day.
00:06:57.507 --> 00:06:58.586
Yeah, exactly.
00:06:59.216 --> 00:07:03.867
And you know, that's why, that's what the nerd in me was.
00:07:05.966 --> 00:07:06.807
I love it.
00:07:06.987 --> 00:07:07.286
Yep.
00:07:08.036 --> 00:07:08.362
I love it.
00:07:08.362 --> 00:07:15.536
The nerds, Sal studied what made me instinctively Yeah.
00:07:15.567 --> 00:07:16.166
Succeed.
00:07:16.166 --> 00:07:17.307
These transitions.
00:07:17.322 --> 00:07:17.612
Yeah.
00:07:18.297 --> 00:07:21.357
So now I have these six steps ready.
00:07:21.627 --> 00:07:27.357
Like why I was sometimes drifting, the reasons why we drift.
00:07:27.357 --> 00:07:32.786
Because it's not only one reason I'm, I'm telling the nerd in me here.
00:07:33.387 --> 00:07:35.877
I studied and now okay, because.
00:07:36.387 --> 00:07:42.747
Like in midlife, I don't wanna keep it to, uh, instinctively, uh, succeed my transition.
00:07:42.747 --> 00:07:43.346
No.
00:07:43.617 --> 00:07:43.737
Right.
00:07:43.737 --> 00:07:49.317
I will follow it and that's why I, uh, I made it my mission.
00:07:49.677 --> 00:07:49.766
Yeah.
00:07:49.766 --> 00:07:50.156
You know?
00:07:50.516 --> 00:07:51.026
Okay.
00:07:51.086 --> 00:07:51.661
It's very clear.
00:07:52.512 --> 00:07:58.482
You have to follow these, you know, for you it's, it's very personal to each one.
00:07:58.482 --> 00:08:10.812
But the question sure would be, the steps are universal, not only for midlife, not only for women, but not only for one specific, uh, transition.
00:08:11.291 --> 00:08:11.831
Okay.
00:08:11.836 --> 00:08:12.127
Also.
00:08:12.927 --> 00:08:18.716
So that's why I want to build this community, you know, because we learn from each other.
00:08:18.807 --> 00:08:19.107
Yeah.
00:08:19.377 --> 00:08:23.576
If now I'm experiencing, uh, uh, empty nesting mm-hmm.
00:08:24.057 --> 00:08:30.026
And Denise, you are experiencing, I don't know, relocation, but I will learn from you when I will experience that.
00:08:30.627 --> 00:08:31.257
I'll remember.
00:08:31.687 --> 00:08:33.486
And we need a human connection.
00:08:33.486 --> 00:08:33.996
Yes.
00:08:33.996 --> 00:08:35.841
This is what we're missing.
00:08:36.576 --> 00:08:37.147
Yes.
00:08:37.206 --> 00:08:42.037
So true AI or everything, you know, I'm the dinosaur.
00:08:42.241 --> 00:08:46.116
I, I finished my master degree before the invention of internet.
00:08:46.356 --> 00:08:54.096
So yes, the connection, this is why you are connecting, right?
00:08:54.606 --> 00:08:55.687
You need a human connection.
00:08:56.292 --> 00:08:58.841
We need to collaborate not to compete.
00:08:59.322 --> 00:08:59.471
Yeah.
00:08:59.471 --> 00:09:02.201
This is the, this is crucial, I think.
00:09:02.206 --> 00:09:02.506
Mm-hmm.
00:09:02.591 --> 00:09:06.192
And this is why, like, I love talking to you, Denise.
00:09:07.001 --> 00:09:07.572
Yeah.
00:09:08.381 --> 00:09:11.142
And do that imperfectly perfect.
00:09:11.981 --> 00:09:12.611
Perfection.
00:09:12.611 --> 00:09:13.302
Don't exist.
00:09:13.422 --> 00:09:15.876
I was long time ago.
00:09:16.076 --> 00:09:17.277
A perfectionism.
00:09:17.652 --> 00:09:18.522
Okay.
00:09:19.871 --> 00:09:20.591
You know, an example.
00:09:22.136 --> 00:09:26.831
With my broken English, I'm speaking to all of you in English.
00:09:27.341 --> 00:09:34.527
Yeah, I speak four languages, Uhhuh, and yes, my audience is everywhere and I don't care.
00:09:34.767 --> 00:09:39.417
Yeah, if people will, will laugh with my uh, accent.
00:09:40.511 --> 00:09:49.331
I have a broken English, but I'm celebrating people saying how a three second video changed their day.
00:09:49.392 --> 00:09:50.172
Yeah.
00:09:50.682 --> 00:09:51.971
I prefer to focus on that.
00:09:52.211 --> 00:09:54.341
Absolutely, yes.
00:09:54.881 --> 00:09:55.241
What?
00:09:55.241 --> 00:09:55.751
Yes.
00:09:55.751 --> 00:09:57.011
Isn't that incredible?
00:09:57.011 --> 00:09:59.621
Because what you, what you focus on gross.
00:09:59.621 --> 00:09:59.711
Yes.
00:10:00.101 --> 00:10:05.381
So if you focus on all of the mountain.
00:10:05.486 --> 00:10:10.407
Yeah, that might be insurmountable as you just look at that mountain.
00:10:10.407 --> 00:10:10.466
Yeah.
00:10:11.006 --> 00:10:13.647
Then you will not be able to move any of the.
00:10:14.922 --> 00:10:18.011
Pieces that need to be moved to start to climb that mountain.
00:10:18.522 --> 00:10:26.892
But I absolutely love what you're sharing because you have done the research, you have the ability.
00:10:27.011 --> 00:10:28.662
It's not just you.
00:10:28.662 --> 00:10:30.581
You have the training.
00:10:30.787 --> 00:10:34.777
To do research in a very specific manner.
00:10:34.777 --> 00:10:42.517
It's not, oh, well, I just looked at my notes and went, you are, you have the masters, you are the doctor in the room.
00:10:42.517 --> 00:10:45.907
So we're not talking somebody who's, oh, well, I put a few clips together.
00:10:45.907 --> 00:10:54.667
This is somebody in the know, not only cognitively, intellectually, academically, but also.
00:10:55.511 --> 00:11:01.121
Physically, you are in the throes and so you understand it at a new level.
00:11:01.121 --> 00:11:02.532
Being in midlife yourself.
00:11:02.532 --> 00:11:16.032
So there's so many strong foundations in the work that you do and what you're bringing to the world, and I am so grateful that you have taken this path and you have retired early, whatever retirement means.
00:11:16.062 --> 00:11:17.892
'cause it doesn't mean for us anyway.
00:11:17.892 --> 00:11:19.062
It does not mean sitting.
00:11:19.706 --> 00:11:22.706
And just waiting for things to happen.
00:11:22.706 --> 00:11:26.547
It's like we'd get out there and do it because it's our lives, right?
00:11:26.606 --> 00:11:26.817
Yeah.
00:11:27.807 --> 00:11:35.336
Like I retired from my regular, uh, it, it's not like I loved my job.
00:11:35.427 --> 00:11:39.356
I was in academia for 25 years in the universities and everything, right?
00:11:39.836 --> 00:11:43.226
Uh, but like imagine my colleagues.
00:11:44.111 --> 00:11:47.052
Like they were, what are you doing?
00:11:47.081 --> 00:11:55.481
Like, I literally was elected twice to be Chair of Education, academic Affairs in the International Federation of Landscape Architect.
00:11:55.481 --> 00:11:55.542
Wow.
00:11:56.261 --> 00:12:03.192
Like, uh, like yes, I achieved like, uh, highest things in my previous career.
00:12:03.581 --> 00:12:04.361
I love it.
00:12:04.631 --> 00:12:05.142
Yeah.
00:12:06.611 --> 00:12:08.711
You know, part of my framework.
00:12:09.356 --> 00:12:16.106
And one of the reasons I was able to succeed, this is what I call outdoor anchor.
00:12:16.496 --> 00:12:16.767
Yes.
00:12:16.767 --> 00:12:25.527
Because it's not, we're, we're in a world that is seeking complex solutions.
00:12:26.427 --> 00:12:26.576
No.
00:12:27.476 --> 00:12:31.481
It's simple things that matters and it's proven by science.
00:12:32.366 --> 00:12:41.517
You know, I say it very simply because I started sharing, uh, online since the pandemic to make it like, uh, obvious for everyone.
00:12:41.966 --> 00:12:42.086
Mm-hmm.
00:12:42.326 --> 00:12:52.797
It's simple, thi uh, simple things like we need to reconnect with the outdoor and we can take it everywhere because I know it's very difficult to build a habit.
00:12:53.126 --> 00:12:55.376
We don't build a habit linked to.
00:12:56.067 --> 00:13:01.167
A personal trainer or to a gym or to a specific location.
00:13:01.767 --> 00:13:02.157
Right.
00:13:02.157 --> 00:13:11.756
Like having the outdoor anchor will have your growing stronger, not just older tool.
00:13:12.121 --> 00:13:12.412
Yeah.
00:13:13.826 --> 00:13:16.287
Moving with you and wherever you you go.
00:13:16.287 --> 00:13:18.057
Because we have the freedom.
00:13:18.297 --> 00:13:21.261
We want The freedom, the freedom of location time.
00:13:21.971 --> 00:13:24.312
And it's compatible to this.
00:13:24.761 --> 00:13:25.211
Yeah.
00:13:25.211 --> 00:13:25.572
Yeah.
00:13:27.116 --> 00:13:32.126
One of the, like the cherry on the top of my, uh, framework.
00:13:32.126 --> 00:13:33.057
Unique framework.
00:13:33.687 --> 00:13:33.777
Yeah.
00:13:33.777 --> 00:13:34.736
The outdoor anchor.
00:13:35.606 --> 00:13:38.756
Love that be, just like you say, it's there.
00:13:38.787 --> 00:13:39.807
It's always available.
00:13:39.807 --> 00:13:39.897
Yes.
00:13:39.927 --> 00:13:42.267
Outdoor is always there no matter where you are.
00:13:42.716 --> 00:13:42.807
Yes.
00:13:43.346 --> 00:13:44.876
And so why not?
00:13:44.937 --> 00:13:45.927
And nature.
00:13:46.076 --> 00:13:47.846
Oh, please, yes.
00:13:47.876 --> 00:13:52.256
That you will not have a better grounding mechanism than nature.
00:13:52.496 --> 00:13:53.547
It's exactly.
00:13:53.576 --> 00:13:55.317
Then yeah.
00:13:55.991 --> 00:14:04.542
And you know, Denise, just for people, because when we say nature, they imagine forests and uh, mountains.
00:14:04.902 --> 00:14:05.981
Yeah, it's that too.
00:14:06.642 --> 00:14:11.322
But also when we say nature, it's the sky.
00:14:12.221 --> 00:14:15.971
You can see like I literally live in the heart.
00:14:16.557 --> 00:14:18.221
The heart of downtown Montreal.
00:14:18.971 --> 00:14:19.782
Yeah.
00:14:20.322 --> 00:14:22.211
Connecting with nature.
00:14:22.542 --> 00:14:24.371
Look, look, the sky.
00:14:25.361 --> 00:14:25.812
It's nature.
00:14:26.366 --> 00:14:26.817
Yeah.
00:14:27.116 --> 00:14:32.851
It'll change your perspective and it's, it really you reset in one, one minute, like.
00:14:33.596 --> 00:14:37.226
Don't take decisions sitting on your couch.
00:14:37.256 --> 00:14:38.611
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:38.711 --> 00:14:39.451
Go outside.
00:14:40.466 --> 00:14:40.736
Yeah.
00:14:40.736 --> 00:14:42.386
Look, look, look at this guy.
00:14:42.986 --> 00:14:44.277
Exactly.
00:14:44.277 --> 00:14:44.336
Yeah.
00:14:44.486 --> 00:14:46.017
Exactly.
00:14:46.017 --> 00:14:47.486
And it's there.
00:14:47.756 --> 00:14:48.807
It never leaves.
00:14:49.256 --> 00:14:51.927
So you don't have to go, like you say, you can change locations.
00:14:51.956 --> 00:14:52.407
Look up.
00:14:52.437 --> 00:14:53.187
Hello.
00:14:54.001 --> 00:14:54.491
Exactly.
00:14:55.466 --> 00:15:01.947
And what a beautiful way to move yourself through different things that.
00:15:02.307 --> 00:15:03.956
It clears your mind, doesn't it?
00:15:03.956 --> 00:15:05.366
You talk about the complexity.
00:15:05.366 --> 00:15:05.456
Yes.
00:15:05.697 --> 00:15:10.017
I think the world is complex and we need to simplify ourselves.
00:15:10.167 --> 00:15:15.147
Simplify through it, and what you have provided is exactly that through your steps.
00:15:15.386 --> 00:15:15.506
Yeah.
00:15:16.106 --> 00:15:17.006
Love it.
00:15:17.576 --> 00:15:19.706
When you and it spoke, sorry.
00:15:19.711 --> 00:15:22.856
And go and it spoke at seven at various levels.
00:15:23.606 --> 00:15:25.751
Personal, you'll reconnect with yourself.
00:15:25.822 --> 00:15:26.111
Yeah.
00:15:26.261 --> 00:15:26.552
Yeah.
00:15:27.341 --> 00:15:30.897
Also, you reconnect with your surrounding because.
00:15:31.616 --> 00:15:37.616
It's not your, like your home, it's not, you expand your home when you go outside.
00:15:38.157 --> 00:15:40.047
Like just go outside.
00:15:40.317 --> 00:15:44.876
Like your neighborhood will be the extension of your home, literally.
00:15:45.476 --> 00:15:46.226
Mm-hmm.
00:15:46.466 --> 00:15:46.476
Mm-hmm.
00:15:46.647 --> 00:15:56.157
Little by little, like there is a metal, a whole thing in the, I can, uh, talk about, but practically this.
00:15:57.371 --> 00:16:01.422
This is the secret also to overcome the isolation.
00:16:01.631 --> 00:16:01.932
Yeah.
00:16:01.932 --> 00:16:05.621
How the, the new pandemic isolation.
00:16:05.621 --> 00:16:05.682
Yeah.
00:16:06.726 --> 00:16:08.466
And, you know, yeah.
00:16:08.471 --> 00:16:08.711
Yeah.
00:16:08.741 --> 00:16:12.851
And we'll have the movement walking and all this.
00:16:13.241 --> 00:16:13.302
Yeah.
00:16:13.302 --> 00:16:17.381
So it's a whole like growing stronger, not just older.
00:16:17.682 --> 00:16:18.162
Yeah.
00:16:18.162 --> 00:16:18.461
Yeah.
00:16:18.461 --> 00:16:20.501
We wanna grow, we want.
00:16:21.447 --> 00:16:22.976
We wanna church every minute.
00:16:23.486 --> 00:16:23.667
Yeah.
00:16:23.667 --> 00:16:24.866
Like growing older.
00:16:24.866 --> 00:16:26.427
It's uh, a blessing.
00:16:26.756 --> 00:16:27.746
Yeah, exactly.
00:16:27.986 --> 00:16:29.006
It's a blessing, please.
00:16:29.576 --> 00:16:30.356
Absolutely.
00:16:30.537 --> 00:16:30.986
Yeah.
00:16:31.496 --> 00:16:31.826
Yeah.
00:16:32.067 --> 00:16:32.606
Totally.
00:16:32.937 --> 00:16:33.716
Absolutely.
00:16:34.017 --> 00:16:34.797
A hundred percent.
00:16:34.856 --> 00:16:35.697
It is a blessing.
00:16:35.697 --> 00:16:43.167
And, and as people around who do not get the opportunity to live a life that we get to live.
00:16:43.437 --> 00:16:43.767
Exactly.
00:16:43.767 --> 00:16:46.226
It brings it closer even more, doesn't it?
00:16:46.496 --> 00:16:46.736
Yeah.
00:16:46.741 --> 00:16:46.892
Yeah.
00:16:47.006 --> 00:16:47.966
It really does.
00:16:47.966 --> 00:16:48.807
It really does.
00:16:49.197 --> 00:16:49.736
Yeah.
00:16:49.736 --> 00:16:50.006
Yeah.
00:16:50.037 --> 00:16:50.277
Yeah.
00:16:50.336 --> 00:16:50.667
Yeah.
00:16:50.667 --> 00:16:50.677
Yeah.
00:16:54.011 --> 00:16:56.351
So I have another question.
00:16:57.011 --> 00:17:17.021
When you actually look back at your own midlife journey that you're taking, is there a moment or a transition specifically, or not even necessarily a moment,'cause I'm sure it was many, but that truly reshaped your path and led you to the work that you're actually doing today?
00:17:20.487 --> 00:17:31.737
You know, I think, uh, it made me, th it's mainly revisiting my priorities.
00:17:32.217 --> 00:17:32.757
Okay.
00:17:33.207 --> 00:17:35.277
What are my priorities?
00:17:35.277 --> 00:17:35.336
Yeah.
00:17:35.846 --> 00:17:40.557
Because, you know, we are okay, midlife and all this.
00:17:41.156 --> 00:17:41.636
And, uh.
00:17:42.971 --> 00:17:44.892
What are my prior priorities?
00:17:44.951 --> 00:17:49.902
I don't like, I was never a one day person like I really act.
00:17:50.261 --> 00:17:50.471
Mm-hmm.
00:17:50.741 --> 00:17:51.612
I take action.
00:17:52.092 --> 00:17:52.211
Yeah.
00:17:52.241 --> 00:17:59.291
But, uh, like a friend of mine, Pascal, only one, like if a school friend mm-hmm.
00:18:00.192 --> 00:18:04.451
Only one week older than me died last year.
00:18:06.521 --> 00:18:08.321
It was Oh my God.
00:18:08.622 --> 00:18:08.862
Yeah.
00:18:08.862 --> 00:18:11.606
No, I like people.
00:18:13.257 --> 00:18:18.686
And, you know, it's not that I didn't experience, uh, you know, uh, death and everything.
00:18:18.686 --> 00:18:27.836
I was born, uh, I was three years old, uh, when, uh, the, the wars in Lebanon started.
00:18:27.896 --> 00:18:29.336
I'm a Lebanese Canadian.
00:18:29.336 --> 00:18:34.376
Lebanese Canadian, so I experienced war and, uh.
00:18:35.291 --> 00:18:37.152
And, you know, loss and everything.
00:18:37.182 --> 00:18:40.422
And, uh, this, it's not an age thing, right?
00:18:40.422 --> 00:18:40.511
Yeah.
00:18:41.051 --> 00:18:42.342
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:18:42.701 --> 00:18:44.172
Don't think about that.
00:18:44.442 --> 00:18:48.882
It's like a lot of people will say midlife, we think because we are close to that.
00:18:49.092 --> 00:18:49.961
Who told you?
00:18:50.471 --> 00:18:50.592
Yeah.
00:18:50.592 --> 00:18:51.237
Who told you?
00:18:51.701 --> 00:18:54.372
Like now with the expansion and everything?
00:18:54.672 --> 00:18:59.261
No, we can live more and more till hundred and much more.
00:18:59.696 --> 00:19:00.297
So, no.
00:19:00.297 --> 00:19:04.317
And even if, uh, someone is retired at 60 mm-hmm.
00:19:04.557 --> 00:19:06.297
They have minimum 20, 25 years.
00:19:06.297 --> 00:19:08.967
And for me it'll be 40 years minimum.
00:19:09.207 --> 00:19:17.666
And when you will reach your a hundred years, you will maybe research will allow us to, uh, to, uh, live longer.
00:19:17.936 --> 00:19:18.086
Yeah.
00:19:18.116 --> 00:19:20.037
But we want to live stronger.
00:19:20.396 --> 00:19:20.517
Yeah.
00:19:20.517 --> 00:19:23.696
So for me it'll be, no, I church, I want to.
00:19:24.551 --> 00:19:30.221
I want as many as people to cherish waking up every morning.
00:19:30.852 --> 00:19:35.501
I want them to remember that they can design that.
00:19:35.501 --> 00:19:38.622
It's never too late to design the life.
00:19:38.622 --> 00:19:40.602
They love waking up.
00:19:40.602 --> 00:19:41.711
They love living.
00:19:42.071 --> 00:19:43.781
Yeah, the life they love living.
00:19:43.991 --> 00:19:46.602
It's not like they are killing time.
00:19:47.711 --> 00:19:50.561
I'm sure you hear like a lot of people Oh, it's good.
00:19:50.561 --> 00:19:52.001
Like this time will pass.
00:19:52.241 --> 00:19:52.481
No, no.
00:19:53.307 --> 00:19:57.017
It's, it's our cherish time.
00:19:57.396 --> 00:19:57.616
Yes.
00:19:57.957 --> 00:19:58.176
Yes.
00:19:58.287 --> 00:20:01.092
This is our most precious resource.
00:20:01.602 --> 00:20:03.761
This is, I made it my mission.
00:20:03.761 --> 00:20:14.237
I want people to cherish time to, to enjoy simple pleasures of life and know midlife.
00:20:15.162 --> 00:20:21.162
It's just another chapter and we'll have, even in midlife, we'll have various chapters.
00:20:21.971 --> 00:20:22.061
Mm-hmm.
00:20:22.332 --> 00:20:22.481
Sure.
00:20:22.717 --> 00:20:23.836
It's not like, yes.
00:20:24.146 --> 00:20:24.436
Yeah.
00:20:24.497 --> 00:20:31.511
So it's, I want people to remember that constant, that the change is the only constant.
00:20:31.842 --> 00:20:32.051
Yeah.
00:20:32.051 --> 00:20:40.301
And I think people forget that and they are like astonished when change happens.
00:20:40.602 --> 00:20:40.811
Yeah.
00:20:41.741 --> 00:20:48.432
But it's a constant, when it's constant, when, when it's a lot of routine, it's, you need to think about it.
00:20:48.432 --> 00:20:51.912
Am I, am I imprisoning?
00:20:51.912 --> 00:20:54.342
Am myself in my comfort zone.
00:20:54.971 --> 00:21:00.372
It'll become like imprisonment, like it's your prison you made yourself.
00:21:00.731 --> 00:21:04.511
Because there to change there, to follow your dream.
00:21:04.511 --> 00:21:09.912
You don't wanna reach a day where you say, oh, I wish I had, uh, done this.
00:21:10.196 --> 00:21:15.567
Write a letter for your 90 years old and what, what?
00:21:15.567 --> 00:21:18.747
She'll thank you about a decision you'll take today.
00:21:18.747 --> 00:21:18.926
Perfect.
00:21:19.166 --> 00:21:20.201
It's never too late.
00:21:20.906 --> 00:21:21.626
Never too late.
00:21:21.957 --> 00:21:22.196
Yeah.
00:21:22.616 --> 00:21:22.856
Yeah.
00:21:23.967 --> 00:21:26.037
Thank you for that action step.
00:21:26.696 --> 00:21:29.457
Write that letter to your 90-year-old self.
00:21:29.457 --> 00:21:30.777
I hear all the time.
00:21:30.777 --> 00:21:32.757
What would you write to the, your younger.
00:21:33.731 --> 00:21:39.852
No, what a great letter to write to your 9,100 yesterday.
00:21:39.852 --> 00:21:44.442
Yes, I saw an incredible woman at 105.
00:21:44.892 --> 00:21:45.281
Yes.
00:21:45.281 --> 00:21:45.821
Run.
00:21:46.092 --> 00:21:47.051
I don't know if you've seen that.
00:21:47.051 --> 00:21:54.731
It's going around Instagram, but I saw her run at 105, um, a hundred meters or something, and I'm like, you.
00:21:55.076 --> 00:21:56.067
Go sister.
00:21:56.067 --> 00:22:03.477
Like, yes, you live every day because you, you've chosen to do that, right?
00:22:03.537 --> 00:22:05.666
And it's your choice.
00:22:05.666 --> 00:22:05.846
Yeah.
00:22:07.346 --> 00:22:10.856
You know, Denise, I remember because we put our limits.
00:22:10.856 --> 00:22:10.916
Yeah.
00:22:10.977 --> 00:22:12.237
And we need to be aware.
00:22:12.237 --> 00:22:16.346
The first thing to do is be aware of where we are now.
00:22:16.767 --> 00:22:24.416
Because I remember back when I was, uh, 45, my brother told me, come I'm training for the marathon.
00:22:24.416 --> 00:22:25.406
Come train with me.
00:22:25.406 --> 00:22:26.757
I told him, no, no, no.
00:22:26.757 --> 00:22:27.567
I'm a hiker.
00:22:28.586 --> 00:22:28.767
Oh.
00:22:28.767 --> 00:22:33.771
After when I realized that in my.
00:22:35.051 --> 00:22:38.382
It was S You're 45, huh?
00:22:38.622 --> 00:22:39.402
We'll run a marathon.
00:22:40.872 --> 00:22:46.211
It was the same day I decided I will run for a marathon.
00:22:46.241 --> 00:22:46.271
Okay.
00:22:46.451 --> 00:22:55.271
And I remember in November 11th I said, okay, before the end of the year, I will run five kilometer without stopping.
00:22:56.981 --> 00:22:58.842
It was the challenge for me.
00:22:59.112 --> 00:22:59.382
Yeah.
00:22:59.382 --> 00:23:00.162
Until date.
00:23:00.281 --> 00:23:01.602
So it 1245.
00:23:01.602 --> 00:23:02.832
Now I'm 53.
00:23:03.251 --> 00:23:03.821
I already ran.
00:23:04.811 --> 00:23:06.041
For marathons.
00:23:07.211 --> 00:23:14.622
I, I'm preparing the next one here, uh, Montreal Marathon in October, 2026.
00:23:14.862 --> 00:23:15.071
Yep.
00:23:15.136 --> 00:23:23.501
And, and you know what, what was challenging for me, it took me six weeks to prepare to run the 5K.
00:23:24.041 --> 00:23:28.721
Now it's, for me, it'll be, oh, Sal, you still have only 5K.
00:23:28.721 --> 00:23:30.221
It became nothing.
00:23:30.432 --> 00:23:31.451
It's not like.
00:23:31.991 --> 00:23:32.616
It changed.
00:23:32.622 --> 00:23:34.481
Changed, but me, I became stronger.
00:23:34.481 --> 00:23:34.541
Yeah.
00:23:34.721 --> 00:23:36.701
Should just start small.
00:23:36.701 --> 00:23:39.372
Whatever you forget.
00:23:39.372 --> 00:23:39.912
Perfect.
00:23:39.971 --> 00:23:41.082
Uh, for Yep.
00:23:41.592 --> 00:23:42.912
Do it imperfectly.
00:23:42.912 --> 00:23:43.571
Perfect.
00:23:43.571 --> 00:23:44.771
And start small.
00:23:45.342 --> 00:23:45.461
Yeah.
00:23:45.461 --> 00:23:47.501
And you know, I believe in daily actions.
00:23:48.221 --> 00:23:48.311
Mm-hmm.
00:23:48.551 --> 00:23:50.682
I will not go to the gym once a week.
00:23:50.801 --> 00:23:50.892
Mm-hmm.
00:23:51.342 --> 00:23:53.771
I will do my magic combo.
00:23:54.612 --> 00:23:55.932
One minute squat.
00:23:55.932 --> 00:23:58.721
One minute, uh, planks.
00:23:58.811 --> 00:24:00.041
One minute bridge.
00:24:00.086 --> 00:24:03.567
And five minutes of mobility every day.
00:24:03.656 --> 00:24:04.946
I can do them everywhere.
00:24:05.007 --> 00:24:05.787
Yes.
00:24:05.787 --> 00:24:06.477
There you go.
00:24:06.537 --> 00:24:06.866
Yep.
00:24:07.616 --> 00:24:07.797
That's it.
00:24:07.797 --> 00:24:08.636
Transferable.
00:24:08.666 --> 00:24:11.067
Yeah, exactly.
00:24:11.487 --> 00:24:12.896
All you need is your body.
00:24:13.406 --> 00:24:14.817
You don't even need equipment.
00:24:14.817 --> 00:24:15.926
I love that.
00:24:16.287 --> 00:24:17.277
And never stop.
00:24:17.727 --> 00:24:18.521
Yeah.
00:24:18.521 --> 00:24:18.626
Yeah.
00:24:20.067 --> 00:24:21.176
No quick fixes.
00:24:21.176 --> 00:24:22.076
No quick fixes.
00:24:22.301 --> 00:24:22.501
Yeah.
00:24:25.092 --> 00:24:25.382
Yeah.
00:24:25.971 --> 00:24:26.382
Love that.
00:24:26.602 --> 00:24:27.102
You know, we.
00:24:30.777 --> 00:24:31.376
Speed.
00:24:31.886 --> 00:24:33.836
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:34.106 --> 00:24:34.977
Faster, quick.
00:24:34.977 --> 00:24:35.666
The moment.
00:24:35.906 --> 00:24:36.356
Yeah.
00:24:36.717 --> 00:24:37.436
It's like that.
00:24:37.707 --> 00:24:39.297
Yeah, no, exactly.
00:24:39.297 --> 00:24:40.076
Exactly.
00:24:40.076 --> 00:24:49.826
It's, it's so true that being present is so empowering and yeah, it is again, our show.
00:24:50.936 --> 00:24:53.967
This is all for you by you because of you.
00:24:53.967 --> 00:24:54.057
Yes.
00:24:54.326 --> 00:24:58.227
Nobody else holds the, okay, now you do it.
00:24:58.227 --> 00:24:58.886
Now you do it.
00:24:58.886 --> 00:24:59.666
Now you do it.
00:24:59.696 --> 00:25:01.586
You mentioned about the personal trainer.
00:25:01.977 --> 00:25:05.186
We are all about giving our audience.
00:25:06.041 --> 00:25:09.162
Ideas, techniques, possibilities that exist.
00:25:09.281 --> 00:25:09.372
Yes.
00:25:09.402 --> 00:25:28.751
Because you are a perfect example and all of your people and clients you've supported over the years and continue to do an amazing job, you know, with all of your content, making sure that they understand that it's your decision and you take your actions and you do the consistency.
00:25:28.751 --> 00:25:31.182
And like you say, everything changes all the time.
00:25:31.182 --> 00:25:31.872
So.
00:25:32.112 --> 00:25:33.071
Don't worry about that.
00:25:33.071 --> 00:25:34.362
That's, that's life.
00:25:34.541 --> 00:25:35.021
That's what we have.
00:25:35.116 --> 00:25:35.517
That's life.
00:25:36.267 --> 00:25:36.997
It's the reality.
00:25:37.696 --> 00:25:37.997
You know?
00:25:37.997 --> 00:25:40.436
If I can add, uh, something I'll, yes.
00:25:40.436 --> 00:25:40.676
Mm-hmm.
00:25:41.757 --> 00:25:51.582
Like I love to stack things like yes, sunset are every day everywhere, and it's not long.
00:25:52.152 --> 00:25:55.061
Like consider it as your me time.
00:25:55.662 --> 00:25:58.122
You are doing everything to everyone.
00:25:58.152 --> 00:26:00.251
You need your me time for you?
00:26:00.701 --> 00:26:06.971
What about linking your me time to an amazing time of the day Sunset?
00:26:06.971 --> 00:26:07.031
Yeah.
00:26:07.392 --> 00:26:15.491
And it shows that, uh, endings can be beautiful and it's only like a, uh, see you tomorrow.
00:26:15.821 --> 00:26:16.632
That's it.
00:26:16.902 --> 00:26:19.301
So make it a habit.
00:26:19.781 --> 00:26:20.261
Mm-hmm.
00:26:20.396 --> 00:26:20.616
To.
00:26:21.642 --> 00:26:36.701
To use sunset time as your me time to be grounded and remind yourself of everything you want to be aware of what you want, what you don't want, what you love, what you don't love every day.
00:26:37.301 --> 00:26:40.721
Yeah, because you need the, give yourself the permission.
00:26:41.231 --> 00:26:46.092
Give yourself the permission, like, yeah.
00:26:46.662 --> 00:26:51.942
Until midlife, usually we don't, uh, give ourselves a lot of time for ourselves.
00:26:51.971 --> 00:26:52.511
No.
00:26:52.632 --> 00:26:52.902
Yeah.
00:26:52.902 --> 00:26:54.942
And set is the reminder.
00:26:55.632 --> 00:26:56.247
There you go.
00:26:56.866 --> 00:26:57.086
Yes.
00:26:57.092 --> 00:27:01.211
And it's, and it's a da like you've already said, it's a daily thing.
00:27:01.211 --> 00:27:02.771
It's never going to fail you.
00:27:02.862 --> 00:27:02.951
Yes.
00:27:02.951 --> 00:27:05.201
So use that.
00:27:05.231 --> 00:27:07.842
That already exists in our universe.
00:27:07.842 --> 00:27:09.701
That happens on a regular basis.
00:27:09.731 --> 00:27:10.602
I love it.
00:27:10.602 --> 00:27:14.321
And it's not, you don't need to spend money to find it.
00:27:14.666 --> 00:27:15.567
You don't need to.
00:27:15.571 --> 00:27:16.152
It's such it.
00:27:16.227 --> 00:27:21.146
You don't need to get everybody else prepped so you can go and have your me time.
00:27:21.146 --> 00:27:21.507
Right?
00:27:21.507 --> 00:27:21.567
Yeah.
00:27:21.567 --> 00:27:23.727
It's like there, it's natural.
00:27:24.326 --> 00:27:25.047
Do it.
00:27:25.076 --> 00:27:26.307
It is for you.
00:27:26.307 --> 00:27:27.596
By you because of you.
00:27:27.596 --> 00:27:34.497
And it's such an easy thing to commit to because it doesn't take forever and it's always available every night.
00:27:34.916 --> 00:27:35.007
Yes.
00:27:35.011 --> 00:27:35.392
Love that.
00:27:35.392 --> 00:27:36.592
Love that.
00:27:37.076 --> 00:27:43.586
You know, another thing that reminds me when I look, because it's my daily thing, uh, yeah, sunset.
00:27:45.162 --> 00:27:53.741
I compare sunsets and I notice that when we have, when we have clouds mm-hmm.
00:27:54.251 --> 00:27:58.602
Sunset becomes more like amazing.
00:27:58.632 --> 00:28:06.402
Like it's, it's very literally, it's surreal and I compare like a life without any problems.
00:28:07.392 --> 00:28:10.092
Like the sky without any clouds.
00:28:10.602 --> 00:28:10.632
Okay.
00:28:10.632 --> 00:28:12.132
The sunset is nice.
00:28:12.311 --> 00:28:19.751
It's also, but when with all the clouds, it's magical.
00:28:20.291 --> 00:28:21.372
Love that.
00:28:21.582 --> 00:28:27.521
And you know, there is no sunset identical to another one.
00:28:27.582 --> 00:28:28.122
Yeah.
00:28:28.541 --> 00:28:34.902
And you'll realize that like with our phone tuck, if you take one picture of the sunset every day, yeah.
00:28:34.902 --> 00:28:35.112
It'll be Wow.
00:28:37.392 --> 00:28:38.146
Very cool.
00:28:38.326 --> 00:28:41.981
You'll be looking forward to, to witness another one.
00:28:42.642 --> 00:28:43.511
I love that.
00:28:43.511 --> 00:28:56.707
That is a great way to do it too, because it not only captures the essence of it, but it allows you to go back and look at, oh my gosh, I have done this habit stacking for exactly a month.
00:28:57.086 --> 00:28:58.916
Yes, I've done it for two months.
00:28:58.916 --> 00:28:59.307
Right.
00:28:59.307 --> 00:29:00.866
So I love that.
00:29:01.317 --> 00:29:02.067
Yes.
00:29:02.457 --> 00:29:18.326
One more question that I want to throw back to you, that I'm excited to hear what you're gonna share, but when you think about the future, what is the vision that you actually have for how your mission will grow?
00:29:21.477 --> 00:29:22.586
I would love.
00:29:23.622 --> 00:29:30.071
Like, my mission will be like to stop the copy pasting of midlife crisis.
00:29:30.672 --> 00:29:42.912
No, it's not a crisis because all over our year, our life, like we are questioning ourself when, uh, as teenagers, as young adults as everything.
00:29:42.912 --> 00:29:45.071
It's the same for midlife.
00:29:45.761 --> 00:29:52.102
We, it's, it's a best way, I think to expand because we have, yeah.
00:29:52.182 --> 00:29:55.182
All the knowledge, all the experience.
00:29:55.721 --> 00:29:58.031
We're not starting from zero.
00:29:58.541 --> 00:30:04.991
It's like what I, uh, what I call like, like same roots, new fruit.
00:30:05.922 --> 00:30:07.987
It's my, the workshop.
00:30:08.987 --> 00:30:13.547
I, I love that same new roots.
00:30:13.896 --> 00:30:14.426
Love it.
00:30:15.731 --> 00:30:16.926
The tree is here.
00:30:17.156 --> 00:30:17.446
Yeah.
00:30:17.592 --> 00:30:18.761
The fruits are there.
00:30:19.376 --> 00:30:21.886
We're, we're growing new fruits.
00:30:22.301 --> 00:30:24.132
We're not starting from zero.
00:30:25.541 --> 00:30:28.991
Whatever your dream is, it's never too late.
00:30:29.261 --> 00:30:30.247
No, just start.
00:30:30.676 --> 00:30:31.247
Just start.
00:30:31.872 --> 00:30:34.241
And you never know who or you're inspiring.
00:30:34.902 --> 00:30:35.832
No, exactly.
00:30:36.521 --> 00:30:36.731
Yeah.
00:30:37.632 --> 00:30:37.902
Yeah.
00:30:39.912 --> 00:30:40.362
New.
00:30:41.261 --> 00:30:42.942
Same roots, new fruits.
00:30:43.332 --> 00:30:44.412
Yes, there it is.
00:30:44.412 --> 00:30:45.912
I love that.
00:30:46.422 --> 00:30:47.201
I love that.
00:30:47.207 --> 00:30:48.192
Join, join Denise.
00:30:48.942 --> 00:30:50.832
I'll send you the details for the workshop.
00:30:51.497 --> 00:30:54.132
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
00:30:54.132 --> 00:30:57.491
Actually, we will have your contact information and everything.
00:30:57.491 --> 00:31:07.301
People need to be able to find you and follow you and see where your workshops are and all of the information, how to reach out and, and have more conversation with you.
00:31:07.301 --> 00:31:12.227
So Sama, thank you so much for your light.
00:31:13.047 --> 00:31:16.196
It is amazing to have shared this time with you.
00:31:16.196 --> 00:31:20.186
It is so, such a blessing, such a gift.
00:31:20.817 --> 00:31:21.267
Thank you.
00:31:21.596 --> 00:31:23.037
Thank really, um.
00:31:23.727 --> 00:31:25.527
I'm grateful I have met ese.
00:31:26.936 --> 00:31:29.967
Grateful for the internet and the social media.
00:31:30.446 --> 00:31:32.666
Everyone is, uh, like criticizing.
00:31:32.936 --> 00:31:38.576
There is always a positive side to things and one of them is meeting ese.
00:31:39.146 --> 00:31:41.186
And thank you for inviting me.
00:31:41.366 --> 00:31:49.017
I'm happy about the mission you, you gave, you gave yourself, and I'm happy to collaborate even more Yeah.
00:31:49.856 --> 00:31:50.666
Beyond this podcast.
00:31:51.882 --> 00:31:53.172
Absolutely.
00:31:53.261 --> 00:32:01.092
It really has been a pleasure and I know we will continue to stay connected and you never know.
00:32:01.092 --> 00:32:04.961
Keep your eye on things, people, you never know what's gonna happen.
00:32:05.741 --> 00:32:06.656
Um, thank you so.
00:32:06.906 --> 00:32:09.457
So much for being with us today.
00:32:09.487 --> 00:32:16.057
Make sure I told you that something would happen as you listened to this and we did not lie.
00:32:16.626 --> 00:32:23.707
I'm sure you felt its, um, Selma's energy, her ability to.
00:32:24.761 --> 00:32:26.142
I don't think she stopped smiling.
00:32:26.142 --> 00:32:38.711
If you haven't, if you're not watching on the YouTube channel, she is a absolute beam of joy and light and it exudes from all of her pores.
00:32:38.711 --> 00:32:51.251
And there's a reason because she has a mission and a belief that when you give back to yourself and you take what's given to you and you take action to see.
00:32:51.487 --> 00:32:56.527
The positive side of it and what you can do to move yourself forward every single day.
00:32:56.977 --> 00:32:57.517
Movement motion.
00:32:58.826 --> 00:33:02.366
Through nature, look up at the sky, be connected.
00:33:02.366 --> 00:33:06.207
You are already take what's here and available for you.
00:33:06.207 --> 00:33:11.217
So make sure that you follow, like share, give us reviews.
00:33:11.307 --> 00:33:16.076
They help all of us spread this incredible message far and wide.
00:33:16.106 --> 00:33:21.717
Have a wonderful day everyone, and make sure you go check out tonight's sunset as day one.
00:33:22.436 --> 00:33:23.217
Yes.
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.730
Hello and welcome to today's episode of Thrive after 45.
00:00:05.831 --> 00:00:10.811
I'm Denise Drink Walter heart whisperer, midlife mirror and mentor.
00:00:10.811 --> 00:00:23.647
And every week I am so honored to share energy and space with inspiring guests whose stories reflect so many possibilities of thriving beyond 45.
00:00:23.647 --> 00:00:33.097
Together, we uncover the whispers of the heart, the power of midlife transformation, and the wisdom that fuels expansion.
00:00:33.219 --> 00:00:45.670
What if the transition you are facing right now isn't a setback, but the spark that could ignite the greatest momentum of your entire midlife?
00:00:46.101 --> 00:00:53.601
It's an honor and an absolute privilege to welcome and introduce Selma Omaha to our show today.
00:00:53.601 --> 00:01:03.142
Selma is a midlife momentum mentor, and she has lived more life transitions than most of us could ever imagine.
00:01:03.142 --> 00:01:09.891
Some by choice, many by chance, and through it all, she became known as the momentum master.
00:01:09.891 --> 00:01:20.811
Because people watched her navigate change with courage, creativity, and this uncanny ability to find solutions that were outside of the box.
00:01:20.811 --> 00:01:25.671
She brings over 25 years of experience and human behavior.
00:01:25.671 --> 00:01:28.882
Land connection and outdoor wellness.
00:01:28.882 --> 00:01:39.652
She spent eight years working directly with people in major life transitions, and over the last three years, she's chosen to focus exclusively on Midlifers.
00:01:40.756 --> 00:01:48.195
Because at age 53 herself, this season is not theoretical.
00:01:48.195 --> 00:01:51.945
She understands it from the inside out.
00:01:51.945 --> 00:01:55.456
Selma's impact has already been felt far and wide.
00:01:55.456 --> 00:02:08.215
Her content has grown organically to reach more than 20,000 people, and she has already directly supported over 1000 Midlifers through her coaching speaking workshops.
00:02:08.634 --> 00:02:09.625
Community work.
00:02:09.625 --> 00:02:22.914
But what makes Selma extraordinary is her gift for guiding Midlifers who feel like they're drifting in empty nesting career changes relocations divorce.
00:02:23.930 --> 00:02:31.819
Retirement and helping them design an active, intentional life that they truly, truly love.
00:02:31.819 --> 00:02:35.599
That's grounded in purpose, presence, and progress.
00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.800
This conversation is going to shift something in you.
00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.300
You're going to feel it.
00:02:41.670 --> 00:02:49.561
So thank you so much, Selma for joining us today and sharing your wisdom, gifts, and talents.
00:02:49.956 --> 00:02:51.852
I'm so happy to, to be here.
00:02:51.852 --> 00:02:57.042
Denise, thank you for the invitation and uh, for the mission you're doing.
00:02:57.042 --> 00:03:00.822
You're doing amazing work, so really thank you for that.
00:03:02.051 --> 00:03:02.981
Thank you.
00:03:02.981 --> 00:03:06.792
And we're here to talk about, oh my gosh.
00:03:06.792 --> 00:03:11.592
I, I read the information that came through and I've been watching you for a while now.
00:03:11.622 --> 00:03:13.512
'cause we connected a while ago.
00:03:13.722 --> 00:03:13.812
Yeah.
00:03:13.812 --> 00:03:13.901
And.
00:03:14.861 --> 00:03:15.882
Oh my goodness.
00:03:15.882 --> 00:03:21.852
There is something real and grounded in your presence.
00:03:22.092 --> 00:03:26.741
Was it always like that or is this something that's been building over time?
00:03:28.782 --> 00:03:33.671
You know, I must say I'm, I go with the flow.
00:03:34.361 --> 00:03:41.532
Like, uh, I experienced so many transitions and like instability is part of my daily life.
00:03:42.072 --> 00:03:42.581
That I embrace it.
00:03:44.021 --> 00:03:50.622
I embrace it with joy, and it's like, okay, what's coming next?
00:03:50.622 --> 00:03:51.401
I'm ready.
00:03:51.822 --> 00:03:55.752
That's why I'm like, I feel I'm ready to that.
00:03:55.752 --> 00:03:56.826
Like, uh, mm-hmm.
00:03:58.991 --> 00:04:05.262
I, yeah, that, that's why I literally studied how I overcame all these transitions.
00:04:05.637 --> 00:04:07.826
And now I have my framework.
00:04:07.887 --> 00:04:09.296
Okay, let's start.
00:04:09.296 --> 00:04:11.757
First step, second step.
00:04:11.757 --> 00:04:14.512
It's uh, it becomes like automatical.
00:04:15.026 --> 00:04:15.806
Yeah.
00:04:15.866 --> 00:04:16.617
Okay.
00:04:16.976 --> 00:04:18.896
So I love that.
00:04:18.896 --> 00:04:26.757
So you did a study of yourself growing through all of the pains that match you.
00:04:28.482 --> 00:04:29.232
You know?
00:04:29.291 --> 00:04:29.862
Yes.
00:04:30.132 --> 00:04:31.062
Okay.
00:04:31.062 --> 00:04:32.862
Uh, just to give you an example.
00:04:32.862 --> 00:04:33.221
Yeah.
00:04:33.911 --> 00:04:42.797
How many transitions I faced, like my more than 30 years old, uh, friend Charles, he will tell me the only constant.
00:04:45.326 --> 00:04:46.122
Hair, that's all.
00:04:48.877 --> 00:04:51.101
So really so empty.
00:04:51.101 --> 00:04:55.817
Nesting, career changes, relocation, divorce, uh, early retirement.
00:04:55.976 --> 00:05:00.851
I early retired at 50 to focus on this, uh, wow.
00:05:00.851 --> 00:05:01.752
Life transition.
00:05:02.562 --> 00:05:08.442
Really, I wanted to make it my mission because I realized not everyone is, uh.
00:05:10.002 --> 00:05:16.122
Is building the successfully through midlife, through life transitions in general.
00:05:16.122 --> 00:05:16.211
Right?
00:05:17.262 --> 00:05:19.062
And especially midlife transitions.
00:05:19.541 --> 00:05:21.612
And it's especially midlife.
00:05:21.641 --> 00:05:26.802
It's like, it's like the copy paste to say, ah, it's midlife crisis.
00:05:26.802 --> 00:05:29.262
What's this midlife crisis?
00:05:29.651 --> 00:05:30.942
It's your wake up call.
00:05:30.942 --> 00:05:32.471
For me, it's a wake up call.
00:05:32.471 --> 00:05:32.682
Remember?
00:05:34.156 --> 00:05:34.507
Right?
00:05:35.146 --> 00:05:36.547
Remember to, to look.
00:05:37.851 --> 00:05:38.541
Differently.
00:05:38.547 --> 00:05:38.846
Differently.
00:05:39.146 --> 00:05:40.797
Change your perspective.
00:05:41.156 --> 00:05:41.396
Right.
00:05:41.427 --> 00:05:55.437
For me, it was like this, and it was like every time I was able to build a better and better chapter, uh, that I'm looking forward to wake up every morning.
00:05:56.516 --> 00:05:56.786
Love that.
00:05:57.357 --> 00:06:06.262
You know, there's so many people, so many people globally who absolutely desire to have what you just shared.
00:06:07.166 --> 00:06:18.596
Just to have the ability, the capacity to wake up every morning, just so grateful and joyful because your feet get to hit the floor for another day.
00:06:19.286 --> 00:06:22.617
Yes, and everybody who I have had.
00:06:23.487 --> 00:06:32.547
Contact with, had conversations with, have had, you know, different exchanges with are looking outside of themselves for that.
00:06:32.817 --> 00:06:39.507
And that's where you're, you're shaking your head no, because those of you who are in podcast land don't see the visual.
00:06:39.507 --> 00:06:41.216
If you're on YouTube, you're gonna see it.
00:06:41.216 --> 00:06:47.007
But there was a huge smile on SSA's face and a, no, that's not how it works, girl.
00:06:47.516 --> 00:06:48.476
It isn't, is it?
00:06:48.476 --> 00:06:49.497
It's not outside.
00:06:50.096 --> 00:06:52.617
It's your, it's your cap.
00:06:52.737 --> 00:06:56.096
Everybody has the ability to do this Absolutely.
00:06:56.156 --> 00:06:57.206
Every single day.
00:06:57.507 --> 00:06:58.586
Yeah, exactly.
00:06:59.216 --> 00:07:03.867
And you know, that's why, that's what the nerd in me was.
00:07:05.966 --> 00:07:06.807
I love it.
00:07:06.987 --> 00:07:07.286
Yep.
00:07:08.036 --> 00:07:08.362
I love it.
00:07:08.362 --> 00:07:15.536
The nerds, Sal studied what made me instinctively Yeah.
00:07:15.567 --> 00:07:16.166
Succeed.
00:07:16.166 --> 00:07:17.307
These transitions.
00:07:17.322 --> 00:07:17.612
Yeah.
00:07:18.297 --> 00:07:21.357
So now I have these six steps ready.
00:07:21.627 --> 00:07:27.357
Like why I was sometimes drifting, the reasons why we drift.
00:07:27.357 --> 00:07:32.786
Because it's not only one reason I'm, I'm telling the nerd in me here.
00:07:33.387 --> 00:07:35.877
I studied and now okay, because.
00:07:36.387 --> 00:07:42.747
Like in midlife, I don't wanna keep it to, uh, instinctively, uh, succeed my transition.
00:07:42.747 --> 00:07:43.346
No.
00:07:43.617 --> 00:07:43.737
Right.
00:07:43.737 --> 00:07:49.317
I will follow it and that's why I, uh, I made it my mission.
00:07:49.677 --> 00:07:49.766
Yeah.
00:07:49.766 --> 00:07:50.156
You know?
00:07:50.516 --> 00:07:51.026
Okay.
00:07:51.086 --> 00:07:51.661
It's very clear.
00:07:52.512 --> 00:07:58.482
You have to follow these, you know, for you it's, it's very personal to each one.
00:07:58.482 --> 00:08:10.812
But the question sure would be, the steps are universal, not only for midlife, not only for women, but not only for one specific, uh, transition.
00:08:11.291 --> 00:08:11.831
Okay.
00:08:11.836 --> 00:08:12.127
Also.
00:08:12.927 --> 00:08:18.716
So that's why I want to build this community, you know, because we learn from each other.
00:08:18.807 --> 00:08:19.107
Yeah.
00:08:19.377 --> 00:08:23.576
If now I'm experiencing, uh, uh, empty nesting mm-hmm.
00:08:24.057 --> 00:08:30.026
And Denise, you are experiencing, I don't know, relocation, but I will learn from you when I will experience that.
00:08:30.627 --> 00:08:31.257
I'll remember.
00:08:31.687 --> 00:08:33.486
And we need a human connection.
00:08:33.486 --> 00:08:33.996
Yes.
00:08:33.996 --> 00:08:35.841
This is what we're missing.
00:08:36.576 --> 00:08:37.147
Yes.
00:08:37.206 --> 00:08:42.037
So true AI or everything, you know, I'm the dinosaur.
00:08:42.241 --> 00:08:46.116
I, I finished my master degree before the invention of internet.
00:08:46.356 --> 00:08:54.096
So yes, the connection, this is why you are connecting, right?
00:08:54.606 --> 00:08:55.687
You need a human connection.
00:08:56.292 --> 00:08:58.841
We need to collaborate not to compete.
00:08:59.322 --> 00:08:59.471
Yeah.
00:08:59.471 --> 00:09:02.201
This is the, this is crucial, I think.
00:09:02.206 --> 00:09:02.506
Mm-hmm.
00:09:02.591 --> 00:09:06.192
And this is why, like, I love talking to you, Denise.
00:09:07.001 --> 00:09:07.572
Yeah.
00:09:08.381 --> 00:09:11.142
And do that imperfectly perfect.
00:09:11.981 --> 00:09:12.611
Perfection.
00:09:12.611 --> 00:09:13.302
Don't exist.
00:09:13.422 --> 00:09:15.876
I was long time ago.
00:09:16.076 --> 00:09:17.277
A perfectionism.
00:09:17.652 --> 00:09:18.522
Okay.
00:09:19.871 --> 00:09:20.591
You know, an example.
00:09:22.136 --> 00:09:26.831
With my broken English, I'm speaking to all of you in English.
00:09:27.341 --> 00:09:34.527
Yeah, I speak four languages, Uhhuh, and yes, my audience is everywhere and I don't care.
00:09:34.767 --> 00:09:39.417
Yeah, if people will, will laugh with my uh, accent.
00:09:40.511 --> 00:09:49.331
I have a broken English, but I'm celebrating people saying how a three second video changed their day.
00:09:49.392 --> 00:09:50.172
Yeah.
00:09:50.682 --> 00:09:51.971
I prefer to focus on that.
00:09:52.211 --> 00:09:54.341
Absolutely, yes.
00:09:54.881 --> 00:09:55.241
What?
00:09:55.241 --> 00:09:55.751
Yes.
00:09:55.751 --> 00:09:57.011
Isn't that incredible?
00:09:57.011 --> 00:09:59.621
Because what you, what you focus on gross.
00:09:59.621 --> 00:09:59.711
Yes.
00:10:00.101 --> 00:10:05.381
So if you focus on all of the mountain.
00:10:05.486 --> 00:10:10.407
Yeah, that might be insurmountable as you just look at that mountain.
00:10:10.407 --> 00:10:10.466
Yeah.
00:10:11.006 --> 00:10:13.647
Then you will not be able to move any of the.
00:10:14.922 --> 00:10:18.011
Pieces that need to be moved to start to climb that mountain.
00:10:18.522 --> 00:10:26.892
But I absolutely love what you're sharing because you have done the research, you have the ability.
00:10:27.011 --> 00:10:28.662
It's not just you.
00:10:28.662 --> 00:10:30.581
You have the training.
00:10:30.787 --> 00:10:34.777
To do research in a very specific manner.
00:10:34.777 --> 00:10:42.517
It's not, oh, well, I just looked at my notes and went, you are, you have the masters, you are the doctor in the room.
00:10:42.517 --> 00:10:45.907
So we're not talking somebody who's, oh, well, I put a few clips together.
00:10:45.907 --> 00:10:54.667
This is somebody in the know, not only cognitively, intellectually, academically, but also.
00:10:55.511 --> 00:11:01.121
Physically, you are in the throes and so you understand it at a new level.
00:11:01.121 --> 00:11:02.532
Being in midlife yourself.
00:11:02.532 --> 00:11:16.032
So there's so many strong foundations in the work that you do and what you're bringing to the world, and I am so grateful that you have taken this path and you have retired early, whatever retirement means.
00:11:16.062 --> 00:11:17.892
'cause it doesn't mean for us anyway.
00:11:17.892 --> 00:11:19.062
It does not mean sitting.
00:11:19.706 --> 00:11:22.706
And just waiting for things to happen.
00:11:22.706 --> 00:11:26.547
It's like we'd get out there and do it because it's our lives, right?
00:11:26.606 --> 00:11:26.817
Yeah.
00:11:27.807 --> 00:11:35.336
Like I retired from my regular, uh, it, it's not like I loved my job.
00:11:35.427 --> 00:11:39.356
I was in academia for 25 years in the universities and everything, right?
00:11:39.836 --> 00:11:43.226
Uh, but like imagine my colleagues.
00:11:44.111 --> 00:11:47.052
Like they were, what are you doing?
00:11:47.081 --> 00:11:55.481
Like, I literally was elected twice to be Chair of Education, academic Affairs in the International Federation of Landscape Architect.
00:11:55.481 --> 00:11:55.542
Wow.
00:11:56.261 --> 00:12:03.192
Like, uh, like yes, I achieved like, uh, highest things in my previous career.
00:12:03.581 --> 00:12:04.361
I love it.
00:12:04.631 --> 00:12:05.142
Yeah.
00:12:06.611 --> 00:12:08.711
You know, part of my framework.
00:12:09.356 --> 00:12:16.106
And one of the reasons I was able to succeed, this is what I call outdoor anchor.
00:12:16.496 --> 00:12:16.767
Yes.
00:12:16.767 --> 00:12:25.527
Because it's not, we're, we're in a world that is seeking complex solutions.
00:12:26.427 --> 00:12:26.576
No.
00:12:27.476 --> 00:12:31.481
It's simple things that matters and it's proven by science.
00:12:32.366 --> 00:12:41.517
You know, I say it very simply because I started sharing, uh, online since the pandemic to make it like, uh, obvious for everyone.
00:12:41.966 --> 00:12:42.086
Mm-hmm.
00:12:42.326 --> 00:12:52.797
It's simple, thi uh, simple things like we need to reconnect with the outdoor and we can take it everywhere because I know it's very difficult to build a habit.
00:12:53.126 --> 00:12:55.376
We don't build a habit linked to.
00:12:56.067 --> 00:13:01.167
A personal trainer or to a gym or to a specific location.
00:13:01.767 --> 00:13:02.157
Right.
00:13:02.157 --> 00:13:11.756
Like having the outdoor anchor will have your growing stronger, not just older tool.
00:13:12.121 --> 00:13:12.412
Yeah.
00:13:13.826 --> 00:13:16.287
Moving with you and wherever you you go.
00:13:16.287 --> 00:13:18.057
Because we have the freedom.
00:13:18.297 --> 00:13:21.261
We want The freedom, the freedom of location time.
00:13:21.971 --> 00:13:24.312
And it's compatible to this.
00:13:24.761 --> 00:13:25.211
Yeah.
00:13:25.211 --> 00:13:25.572
Yeah.
00:13:27.116 --> 00:13:32.126
One of the, like the cherry on the top of my, uh, framework.
00:13:32.126 --> 00:13:33.057
Unique framework.
00:13:33.687 --> 00:13:33.777
Yeah.
00:13:33.777 --> 00:13:34.736
The outdoor anchor.
00:13:35.606 --> 00:13:38.756
Love that be, just like you say, it's there.
00:13:38.787 --> 00:13:39.807
It's always available.
00:13:39.807 --> 00:13:39.897
Yes.
00:13:39.927 --> 00:13:42.267
Outdoor is always there no matter where you are.
00:13:42.716 --> 00:13:42.807
Yes.
00:13:43.346 --> 00:13:44.876
And so why not?
00:13:44.937 --> 00:13:45.927
And nature.
00:13:46.076 --> 00:13:47.846
Oh, please, yes.
00:13:47.876 --> 00:13:52.256
That you will not have a better grounding mechanism than nature.
00:13:52.496 --> 00:13:53.547
It's exactly.
00:13:53.576 --> 00:13:55.317
Then yeah.
00:13:55.991 --> 00:14:04.542
And you know, Denise, just for people, because when we say nature, they imagine forests and uh, mountains.
00:14:04.902 --> 00:14:05.981
Yeah, it's that too.
00:14:06.642 --> 00:14:11.322
But also when we say nature, it's the sky.
00:14:12.221 --> 00:14:15.971
You can see like I literally live in the heart.
00:14:16.557 --> 00:14:18.221
The heart of downtown Montreal.
00:14:18.971 --> 00:14:19.782
Yeah.
00:14:20.322 --> 00:14:22.211
Connecting with nature.
00:14:22.542 --> 00:14:24.371
Look, look, the sky.
00:14:25.361 --> 00:14:25.812
It's nature.
00:14:26.366 --> 00:14:26.817
Yeah.
00:14:27.116 --> 00:14:32.851
It'll change your perspective and it's, it really you reset in one, one minute, like.
00:14:33.596 --> 00:14:37.226
Don't take decisions sitting on your couch.
00:14:37.256 --> 00:14:38.611
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:38.711 --> 00:14:39.451
Go outside.
00:14:40.466 --> 00:14:40.736
Yeah.
00:14:40.736 --> 00:14:42.386
Look, look, look at this guy.
00:14:42.986 --> 00:14:44.277
Exactly.
00:14:44.277 --> 00:14:44.336
Yeah.
00:14:44.486 --> 00:14:46.017
Exactly.
00:14:46.017 --> 00:14:47.486
And it's there.
00:14:47.756 --> 00:14:48.807
It never leaves.
00:14:49.256 --> 00:14:51.927
So you don't have to go, like you say, you can change locations.
00:14:51.956 --> 00:14:52.407
Look up.
00:14:52.437 --> 00:14:53.187
Hello.
00:14:54.001 --> 00:14:54.491
Exactly.
00:14:55.466 --> 00:15:01.947
And what a beautiful way to move yourself through different things that.
00:15:02.307 --> 00:15:03.956
It clears your mind, doesn't it?
00:15:03.956 --> 00:15:05.366
You talk about the complexity.
00:15:05.366 --> 00:15:05.456
Yes.
00:15:05.697 --> 00:15:10.017
I think the world is complex and we need to simplify ourselves.
00:15:10.167 --> 00:15:15.147
Simplify through it, and what you have provided is exactly that through your steps.
00:15:15.386 --> 00:15:15.506
Yeah.
00:15:16.106 --> 00:15:17.006
Love it.
00:15:17.576 --> 00:15:19.706
When you and it spoke, sorry.
00:15:19.711 --> 00:15:22.856
And go and it spoke at seven at various levels.
00:15:23.606 --> 00:15:25.751
Personal, you'll reconnect with yourself.
00:15:25.822 --> 00:15:26.111
Yeah.
00:15:26.261 --> 00:15:26.552
Yeah.
00:15:27.341 --> 00:15:30.897
Also, you reconnect with your surrounding because.
00:15:31.616 --> 00:15:37.616
It's not your, like your home, it's not, you expand your home when you go outside.
00:15:38.157 --> 00:15:40.047
Like just go outside.
00:15:40.317 --> 00:15:44.876
Like your neighborhood will be the extension of your home, literally.
00:15:45.476 --> 00:15:46.226
Mm-hmm.
00:15:46.466 --> 00:15:46.476
Mm-hmm.
00:15:46.647 --> 00:15:56.157
Little by little, like there is a metal, a whole thing in the, I can, uh, talk about, but practically this.
00:15:57.371 --> 00:16:01.422
This is the secret also to overcome the isolation.
00:16:01.631 --> 00:16:01.932
Yeah.
00:16:01.932 --> 00:16:05.621
How the, the new pandemic isolation.
00:16:05.621 --> 00:16:05.682
Yeah.
00:16:06.726 --> 00:16:08.466
And, you know, yeah.
00:16:08.471 --> 00:16:08.711
Yeah.
00:16:08.741 --> 00:16:12.851
And we'll have the movement walking and all this.
00:16:13.241 --> 00:16:13.302
Yeah.
00:16:13.302 --> 00:16:17.381
So it's a whole like growing stronger, not just older.
00:16:17.682 --> 00:16:18.162
Yeah.
00:16:18.162 --> 00:16:18.461
Yeah.
00:16:18.461 --> 00:16:20.501
We wanna grow, we want.
00:16:21.447 --> 00:16:22.976
We wanna church every minute.
00:16:23.486 --> 00:16:23.667
Yeah.
00:16:23.667 --> 00:16:24.866
Like growing older.
00:16:24.866 --> 00:16:26.427
It's uh, a blessing.
00:16:26.756 --> 00:16:27.746
Yeah, exactly.
00:16:27.986 --> 00:16:29.006
It's a blessing, please.
00:16:29.576 --> 00:16:30.356
Absolutely.
00:16:30.537 --> 00:16:30.986
Yeah.
00:16:31.496 --> 00:16:31.826
Yeah.
00:16:32.067 --> 00:16:32.606
Totally.
00:16:32.937 --> 00:16:33.716
Absolutely.
00:16:34.017 --> 00:16:34.797
A hundred percent.
00:16:34.856 --> 00:16:35.697
It is a blessing.
00:16:35.697 --> 00:16:43.167
And, and as people around who do not get the opportunity to live a life that we get to live.
00:16:43.437 --> 00:16:43.767
Exactly.
00:16:43.767 --> 00:16:46.226
It brings it closer even more, doesn't it?
00:16:46.496 --> 00:16:46.736
Yeah.
00:16:46.741 --> 00:16:46.892
Yeah.
00:16:47.006 --> 00:16:47.966
It really does.
00:16:47.966 --> 00:16:48.807
It really does.
00:16:49.197 --> 00:16:49.736
Yeah.
00:16:49.736 --> 00:16:50.006
Yeah.
00:16:50.037 --> 00:16:50.277
Yeah.
00:16:50.336 --> 00:16:50.667
Yeah.
00:16:50.667 --> 00:16:50.677
Yeah.
00:16:54.011 --> 00:16:56.351
So I have another question.
00:16:57.011 --> 00:17:17.021
When you actually look back at your own midlife journey that you're taking, is there a moment or a transition specifically, or not even necessarily a moment,'cause I'm sure it was many, but that truly reshaped your path and led you to the work that you're actually doing today?
00:17:20.487 --> 00:17:31.737
You know, I think, uh, it made me, th it's mainly revisiting my priorities.
00:17:32.217 --> 00:17:32.757
Okay.
00:17:33.207 --> 00:17:35.277
What are my priorities?
00:17:35.277 --> 00:17:35.336
Yeah.
00:17:35.846 --> 00:17:40.557
Because, you know, we are okay, midlife and all this.
00:17:41.156 --> 00:17:41.636
And, uh.
00:17:42.971 --> 00:17:44.892
What are my prior priorities?
00:17:44.951 --> 00:17:49.902
I don't like, I was never a one day person like I really act.
00:17:50.261 --> 00:17:50.471
Mm-hmm.
00:17:50.741 --> 00:17:51.612
I take action.
00:17:52.092 --> 00:17:52.211
Yeah.
00:17:52.241 --> 00:17:59.291
But, uh, like a friend of mine, Pascal, only one, like if a school friend mm-hmm.
00:18:00.192 --> 00:18:04.451
Only one week older than me died last year.
00:18:06.521 --> 00:18:08.321
It was Oh my God.
00:18:08.622 --> 00:18:08.862
Yeah.
00:18:08.862 --> 00:18:11.606
No, I like people.
00:18:13.257 --> 00:18:18.686
And, you know, it's not that I didn't experience, uh, you know, uh, death and everything.
00:18:18.686 --> 00:18:27.836
I was born, uh, I was three years old, uh, when, uh, the, the wars in Lebanon started.
00:18:27.896 --> 00:18:29.336
I'm a Lebanese Canadian.
00:18:29.336 --> 00:18:34.376
Lebanese Canadian, so I experienced war and, uh.
00:18:35.291 --> 00:18:37.152
And, you know, loss and everything.
00:18:37.182 --> 00:18:40.422
And, uh, this, it's not an age thing, right?
00:18:40.422 --> 00:18:40.511
Yeah.
00:18:41.051 --> 00:18:42.342
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:18:42.701 --> 00:18:44.172
Don't think about that.
00:18:44.442 --> 00:18:48.882
It's like a lot of people will say midlife, we think because we are close to that.
00:18:49.092 --> 00:18:49.961
Who told you?
00:18:50.471 --> 00:18:50.592
Yeah.
00:18:50.592 --> 00:18:51.237
Who told you?
00:18:51.701 --> 00:18:54.372
Like now with the expansion and everything?
00:18:54.672 --> 00:18:59.261
No, we can live more and more till hundred and much more.
00:18:59.696 --> 00:19:00.297
So, no.
00:19:00.297 --> 00:19:04.317
And even if, uh, someone is retired at 60 mm-hmm.
00:19:04.557 --> 00:19:06.297
They have minimum 20, 25 years.
00:19:06.297 --> 00:19:08.967
And for me it'll be 40 years minimum.
00:19:09.207 --> 00:19:17.666
And when you will reach your a hundred years, you will maybe research will allow us to, uh, to, uh, live longer.
00:19:17.936 --> 00:19:18.086
Yeah.
00:19:18.116 --> 00:19:20.037
But we want to live stronger.
00:19:20.396 --> 00:19:20.517
Yeah.
00:19:20.517 --> 00:19:23.696
So for me it'll be, no, I church, I want to.
00:19:24.551 --> 00:19:30.221
I want as many as people to cherish waking up every morning.
00:19:30.852 --> 00:19:35.501
I want them to remember that they can design that.
00:19:35.501 --> 00:19:38.622
It's never too late to design the life.
00:19:38.622 --> 00:19:40.602
They love waking up.
00:19:40.602 --> 00:19:41.711
They love living.
00:19:42.071 --> 00:19:43.781
Yeah, the life they love living.
00:19:43.991 --> 00:19:46.602
It's not like they are killing time.
00:19:47.711 --> 00:19:50.561
I'm sure you hear like a lot of people Oh, it's good.
00:19:50.561 --> 00:19:52.001
Like this time will pass.
00:19:52.241 --> 00:19:52.481
No, no.
00:19:53.307 --> 00:19:57.017
It's, it's our cherish time.
00:19:57.396 --> 00:19:57.616
Yes.
00:19:57.957 --> 00:19:58.176
Yes.
00:19:58.287 --> 00:20:01.092
This is our most precious resource.
00:20:01.602 --> 00:20:03.761
This is, I made it my mission.
00:20:03.761 --> 00:20:14.237
I want people to cherish time to, to enjoy simple pleasures of life and know midlife.
00:20:15.162 --> 00:20:21.162
It's just another chapter and we'll have, even in midlife, we'll have various chapters.
00:20:21.971 --> 00:20:22.061
Mm-hmm.
00:20:22.332 --> 00:20:22.481
Sure.
00:20:22.717 --> 00:20:23.836
It's not like, yes.
00:20:24.146 --> 00:20:24.436
Yeah.
00:20:24.497 --> 00:20:31.511
So it's, I want people to remember that constant, that the change is the only constant.
00:20:31.842 --> 00:20:32.051
Yeah.
00:20:32.051 --> 00:20:40.301
And I think people forget that and they are like astonished when change happens.
00:20:40.602 --> 00:20:40.811
Yeah.
00:20:41.741 --> 00:20:48.432
But it's a constant, when it's constant, when, when it's a lot of routine, it's, you need to think about it.
00:20:48.432 --> 00:20:51.912
Am I, am I imprisoning?
00:20:51.912 --> 00:20:54.342
Am myself in my comfort zone.
00:20:54.971 --> 00:21:00.372
It'll become like imprisonment, like it's your prison you made yourself.
00:21:00.731 --> 00:21:04.511
Because there to change there, to follow your dream.
00:21:04.511 --> 00:21:09.912
You don't wanna reach a day where you say, oh, I wish I had, uh, done this.
00:21:10.196 --> 00:21:15.567
Write a letter for your 90 years old and what, what?
00:21:15.567 --> 00:21:18.747
She'll thank you about a decision you'll take today.
00:21:18.747 --> 00:21:18.926
Perfect.
00:21:19.166 --> 00:21:20.201
It's never too late.
00:21:20.906 --> 00:21:21.626
Never too late.
00:21:21.957 --> 00:21:22.196
Yeah.
00:21:22.616 --> 00:21:22.856
Yeah.
00:21:23.967 --> 00:21:26.037
Thank you for that action step.
00:21:26.696 --> 00:21:29.457
Write that letter to your 90-year-old self.
00:21:29.457 --> 00:21:30.777
I hear all the time.
00:21:30.777 --> 00:21:32.757
What would you write to the, your younger.
00:21:33.731 --> 00:21:39.852
No, what a great letter to write to your 9,100 yesterday.
00:21:39.852 --> 00:21:44.442
Yes, I saw an incredible woman at 105.
00:21:44.892 --> 00:21:45.281
Yes.
00:21:45.281 --> 00:21:45.821
Run.
00:21:46.092 --> 00:21:47.051
I don't know if you've seen that.
00:21:47.051 --> 00:21:54.731
It's going around Instagram, but I saw her run at 105, um, a hundred meters or something, and I'm like, you.
00:21:55.076 --> 00:21:56.067
Go sister.
00:21:56.067 --> 00:22:03.477
Like, yes, you live every day because you, you've chosen to do that, right?
00:22:03.537 --> 00:22:05.666
And it's your choice.
00:22:05.666 --> 00:22:05.846
Yeah.
00:22:07.346 --> 00:22:10.856
You know, Denise, I remember because we put our limits.
00:22:10.856 --> 00:22:10.916
Yeah.
00:22:10.977 --> 00:22:12.237
And we need to be aware.
00:22:12.237 --> 00:22:16.346
The first thing to do is be aware of where we are now.
00:22:16.767 --> 00:22:24.416
Because I remember back when I was, uh, 45, my brother told me, come I'm training for the marathon.
00:22:24.416 --> 00:22:25.406
Come train with me.
00:22:25.406 --> 00:22:26.757
I told him, no, no, no.
00:22:26.757 --> 00:22:27.567
I'm a hiker.
00:22:28.586 --> 00:22:28.767
Oh.
00:22:28.767 --> 00:22:33.771
After when I realized that in my.
00:22:35.051 --> 00:22:38.382
It was S You're 45, huh?
00:22:38.622 --> 00:22:39.402
We'll run a marathon.
00:22:40.872 --> 00:22:46.211
It was the same day I decided I will run for a marathon.
00:22:46.241 --> 00:22:46.271
Okay.
00:22:46.451 --> 00:22:55.271
And I remember in November 11th I said, okay, before the end of the year, I will run five kilometer without stopping.
00:22:56.981 --> 00:22:58.842
It was the challenge for me.
00:22:59.112 --> 00:22:59.382
Yeah.
00:22:59.382 --> 00:23:00.162
Until date.
00:23:00.281 --> 00:23:01.602
So it 1245.
00:23:01.602 --> 00:23:02.832
Now I'm 53.
00:23:03.251 --> 00:23:03.821
I already ran.
00:23:04.811 --> 00:23:06.041
For marathons.
00:23:07.211 --> 00:23:14.622
I, I'm preparing the next one here, uh, Montreal Marathon in October, 2026.
00:23:14.862 --> 00:23:15.071
Yep.
00:23:15.136 --> 00:23:23.501
And, and you know what, what was challenging for me, it took me six weeks to prepare to run the 5K.
00:23:24.041 --> 00:23:28.721
Now it's, for me, it'll be, oh, Sal, you still have only 5K.
00:23:28.721 --> 00:23:30.221
It became nothing.
00:23:30.432 --> 00:23:31.451
It's not like.
00:23:31.991 --> 00:23:32.616
It changed.
00:23:32.622 --> 00:23:34.481
Changed, but me, I became stronger.
00:23:34.481 --> 00:23:34.541
Yeah.
00:23:34.721 --> 00:23:36.701
Should just start small.
00:23:36.701 --> 00:23:39.372
Whatever you forget.
00:23:39.372 --> 00:23:39.912
Perfect.
00:23:39.971 --> 00:23:41.082
Uh, for Yep.
00:23:41.592 --> 00:23:42.912
Do it imperfectly.
00:23:42.912 --> 00:23:43.571
Perfect.
00:23:43.571 --> 00:23:44.771
And start small.
00:23:45.342 --> 00:23:45.461
Yeah.
00:23:45.461 --> 00:23:47.501
And you know, I believe in daily actions.
00:23:48.221 --> 00:23:48.311
Mm-hmm.
00:23:48.551 --> 00:23:50.682
I will not go to the gym once a week.
00:23:50.801 --> 00:23:50.892
Mm-hmm.
00:23:51.342 --> 00:23:53.771
I will do my magic combo.
00:23:54.612 --> 00:23:55.932
One minute squat.
00:23:55.932 --> 00:23:58.721
One minute, uh, planks.
00:23:58.811 --> 00:24:00.041
One minute bridge.
00:24:00.086 --> 00:24:03.567
And five minutes of mobility every day.
00:24:03.656 --> 00:24:04.946
I can do them everywhere.
00:24:05.007 --> 00:24:05.787
Yes.
00:24:05.787 --> 00:24:06.477
There you go.
00:24:06.537 --> 00:24:06.866
Yep.
00:24:07.616 --> 00:24:07.797
That's it.
00:24:07.797 --> 00:24:08.636
Transferable.
00:24:08.666 --> 00:24:11.067
Yeah, exactly.
00:24:11.487 --> 00:24:12.896
All you need is your body.
00:24:13.406 --> 00:24:14.817
You don't even need equipment.
00:24:14.817 --> 00:24:15.926
I love that.
00:24:16.287 --> 00:24:17.277
And never stop.
00:24:17.727 --> 00:24:18.521
Yeah.
00:24:18.521 --> 00:24:18.626
Yeah.
00:24:20.067 --> 00:24:21.176
No quick fixes.
00:24:21.176 --> 00:24:22.076
No quick fixes.
00:24:22.301 --> 00:24:22.501
Yeah.
00:24:25.092 --> 00:24:25.382
Yeah.
00:24:25.971 --> 00:24:26.382
Love that.
00:24:26.602 --> 00:24:27.102
You know, we.
00:24:30.777 --> 00:24:31.376
Speed.
00:24:31.886 --> 00:24:33.836
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:34.106 --> 00:24:34.977
Faster, quick.
00:24:34.977 --> 00:24:35.666
The moment.
00:24:35.906 --> 00:24:36.356
Yeah.
00:24:36.717 --> 00:24:37.436
It's like that.
00:24:37.707 --> 00:24:39.297
Yeah, no, exactly.
00:24:39.297 --> 00:24:40.076
Exactly.
00:24:40.076 --> 00:24:49.826
It's, it's so true that being present is so empowering and yeah, it is again, our show.
00:24:50.936 --> 00:24:53.967
This is all for you by you because of you.
00:24:53.967 --> 00:24:54.057
Yes.
00:24:54.326 --> 00:24:58.227
Nobody else holds the, okay, now you do it.
00:24:58.227 --> 00:24:58.886
Now you do it.
00:24:58.886 --> 00:24:59.666
Now you do it.
00:24:59.696 --> 00:25:01.586
You mentioned about the personal trainer.
00:25:01.977 --> 00:25:05.186
We are all about giving our audience.
00:25:06.041 --> 00:25:09.162
Ideas, techniques, possibilities that exist.
00:25:09.281 --> 00:25:09.372
Yes.
00:25:09.402 --> 00:25:28.751
Because you are a perfect example and all of your people and clients you've supported over the years and continue to do an amazing job, you know, with all of your content, making sure that they understand that it's your decision and you take your actions and you do the consistency.
00:25:28.751 --> 00:25:31.182
And like you say, everything changes all the time.
00:25:31.182 --> 00:25:31.872
So.
00:25:32.112 --> 00:25:33.071
Don't worry about that.
00:25:33.071 --> 00:25:34.362
That's, that's life.
00:25:34.541 --> 00:25:35.021
That's what we have.
00:25:35.116 --> 00:25:35.517
That's life.
00:25:36.267 --> 00:25:36.997
It's the reality.
00:25:37.696 --> 00:25:37.997
You know?
00:25:37.997 --> 00:25:40.436
If I can add, uh, something I'll, yes.
00:25:40.436 --> 00:25:40.676
Mm-hmm.
00:25:41.757 --> 00:25:51.582
Like I love to stack things like yes, sunset are every day everywhere, and it's not long.
00:25:52.152 --> 00:25:55.061
Like consider it as your me time.
00:25:55.662 --> 00:25:58.122
You are doing everything to everyone.
00:25:58.152 --> 00:26:00.251
You need your me time for you?
00:26:00.701 --> 00:26:06.971
What about linking your me time to an amazing time of the day Sunset?
00:26:06.971 --> 00:26:07.031
Yeah.
00:26:07.392 --> 00:26:15.491
And it shows that, uh, endings can be beautiful and it's only like a, uh, see you tomorrow.
00:26:15.821 --> 00:26:16.632
That's it.
00:26:16.902 --> 00:26:19.301
So make it a habit.
00:26:19.781 --> 00:26:20.261
Mm-hmm.
00:26:20.396 --> 00:26:20.616
To.
00:26:21.642 --> 00:26:36.701
To use sunset time as your me time to be grounded and remind yourself of everything you want to be aware of what you want, what you don't want, what you love, what you don't love every day.
00:26:37.301 --> 00:26:40.721
Yeah, because you need the, give yourself the permission.
00:26:41.231 --> 00:26:46.092
Give yourself the permission, like, yeah.
00:26:46.662 --> 00:26:51.942
Until midlife, usually we don't, uh, give ourselves a lot of time for ourselves.
00:26:51.971 --> 00:26:52.511
No.
00:26:52.632 --> 00:26:52.902
Yeah.
00:26:52.902 --> 00:26:54.942
And set is the reminder.
00:26:55.632 --> 00:26:56.247
There you go.
00:26:56.866 --> 00:26:57.086
Yes.
00:26:57.092 --> 00:27:01.211
And it's, and it's a da like you've already said, it's a daily thing.
00:27:01.211 --> 00:27:02.771
It's never going to fail you.
00:27:02.862 --> 00:27:02.951
Yes.
00:27:02.951 --> 00:27:05.201
So use that.
00:27:05.231 --> 00:27:07.842
That already exists in our universe.
00:27:07.842 --> 00:27:09.701
That happens on a regular basis.
00:27:09.731 --> 00:27:10.602
I love it.
00:27:10.602 --> 00:27:14.321
And it's not, you don't need to spend money to find it.
00:27:14.666 --> 00:27:15.567
You don't need to.
00:27:15.571 --> 00:27:16.152
It's such it.
00:27:16.227 --> 00:27:21.146
You don't need to get everybody else prepped so you can go and have your me time.
00:27:21.146 --> 00:27:21.507
Right?
00:27:21.507 --> 00:27:21.567
Yeah.
00:27:21.567 --> 00:27:23.727
It's like there, it's natural.
00:27:24.326 --> 00:27:25.047
Do it.
00:27:25.076 --> 00:27:26.307
It is for you.
00:27:26.307 --> 00:27:27.596
By you because of you.
00:27:27.596 --> 00:27:34.497
And it's such an easy thing to commit to because it doesn't take forever and it's always available every night.
00:27:34.916 --> 00:27:35.007
Yes.
00:27:35.011 --> 00:27:35.392
Love that.
00:27:35.392 --> 00:27:36.592
Love that.
00:27:37.076 --> 00:27:43.586
You know, another thing that reminds me when I look, because it's my daily thing, uh, yeah, sunset.
00:27:45.162 --> 00:27:53.741
I compare sunsets and I notice that when we have, when we have clouds mm-hmm.
00:27:54.251 --> 00:27:58.602
Sunset becomes more like amazing.
00:27:58.632 --> 00:28:06.402
Like it's, it's very literally, it's surreal and I compare like a life without any problems.
00:28:07.392 --> 00:28:10.092
Like the sky without any clouds.
00:28:10.602 --> 00:28:10.632
Okay.
00:28:10.632 --> 00:28:12.132
The sunset is nice.
00:28:12.311 --> 00:28:19.751
It's also, but when with all the clouds, it's magical.
00:28:20.291 --> 00:28:21.372
Love that.
00:28:21.582 --> 00:28:27.521
And you know, there is no sunset identical to another one.
00:28:27.582 --> 00:28:28.122
Yeah.
00:28:28.541 --> 00:28:34.902
And you'll realize that like with our phone tuck, if you take one picture of the sunset every day, yeah.
00:28:34.902 --> 00:28:35.112
It'll be Wow.
00:28:37.392 --> 00:28:38.146
Very cool.
00:28:38.326 --> 00:28:41.981
You'll be looking forward to, to witness another one.
00:28:42.642 --> 00:28:43.511
I love that.
00:28:43.511 --> 00:28:56.707
That is a great way to do it too, because it not only captures the essence of it, but it allows you to go back and look at, oh my gosh, I have done this habit stacking for exactly a month.
00:28:57.086 --> 00:28:58.916
Yes, I've done it for two months.
00:28:58.916 --> 00:28:59.307
Right.
00:28:59.307 --> 00:29:00.866
So I love that.
00:29:01.317 --> 00:29:02.067
Yes.
00:29:02.457 --> 00:29:18.326
One more question that I want to throw back to you, that I'm excited to hear what you're gonna share, but when you think about the future, what is the vision that you actually have for how your mission will grow?
00:29:21.477 --> 00:29:22.586
I would love.
00:29:23.622 --> 00:29:30.071
Like, my mission will be like to stop the copy pasting of midlife crisis.
00:29:30.672 --> 00:29:42.912
No, it's not a crisis because all over our year, our life, like we are questioning ourself when, uh, as teenagers, as young adults as everything.
00:29:42.912 --> 00:29:45.071
It's the same for midlife.
00:29:45.761 --> 00:29:52.102
We, it's, it's a best way, I think to expand because we have, yeah.
00:29:52.182 --> 00:29:55.182
All the knowledge, all the experience.
00:29:55.721 --> 00:29:58.031
We're not starting from zero.
00:29:58.541 --> 00:30:04.991
It's like what I, uh, what I call like, like same roots, new fruit.
00:30:05.922 --> 00:30:07.987
It's my, the workshop.
00:30:08.987 --> 00:30:13.547
I, I love that same new roots.
00:30:13.896 --> 00:30:14.426
Love it.
00:30:15.731 --> 00:30:16.926
The tree is here.
00:30:17.156 --> 00:30:17.446
Yeah.
00:30:17.592 --> 00:30:18.761
The fruits are there.
00:30:19.376 --> 00:30:21.886
We're, we're growing new fruits.
00:30:22.301 --> 00:30:24.132
We're not starting from zero.
00:30:25.541 --> 00:30:28.991
Whatever your dream is, it's never too late.
00:30:29.261 --> 00:30:30.247
No, just start.
00:30:30.676 --> 00:30:31.247
Just start.
00:30:31.872 --> 00:30:34.241
And you never know who or you're inspiring.
00:30:34.902 --> 00:30:35.832
No, exactly.
00:30:36.521 --> 00:30:36.731
Yeah.
00:30:37.632 --> 00:30:37.902
Yeah.
00:30:39.912 --> 00:30:40.362
New.
00:30:41.261 --> 00:30:42.942
Same roots, new fruits.
00:30:43.332 --> 00:30:44.412
Yes, there it is.
00:30:44.412 --> 00:30:45.912
I love that.
00:30:46.422 --> 00:30:47.201
I love that.
00:30:47.207 --> 00:30:48.192
Join, join Denise.
00:30:48.942 --> 00:30:50.832
I'll send you the details for the workshop.
00:30:51.497 --> 00:30:54.132
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
00:30:54.132 --> 00:30:57.491
Actually, we will have your contact information and everything.
00:30:57.491 --> 00:31:07.301
People need to be able to find you and follow you and see where your workshops are and all of the information, how to reach out and, and have more conversation with you.
00:31:07.301 --> 00:31:12.227
So Sama, thank you so much for your light.
00:31:13.047 --> 00:31:16.196
It is amazing to have shared this time with you.
00:31:16.196 --> 00:31:20.186
It is so, such a blessing, such a gift.
00:31:20.817 --> 00:31:21.267
Thank you.
00:31:21.596 --> 00:31:23.037
Thank really, um.
00:31:23.727 --> 00:31:25.527
I'm grateful I have met ese.
00:31:26.936 --> 00:31:29.967
Grateful for the internet and the social media.
00:31:30.446 --> 00:31:32.666
Everyone is, uh, like criticizing.
00:31:32.936 --> 00:31:38.576
There is always a positive side to things and one of them is meeting ese.
00:31:39.146 --> 00:31:41.186
And thank you for inviting me.
00:31:41.366 --> 00:31:49.017
I'm happy about the mission you, you gave, you gave yourself, and I'm happy to collaborate even more Yeah.
00:31:49.856 --> 00:31:50.666
Beyond this podcast.
00:31:51.882 --> 00:31:53.172
Absolutely.
00:31:53.261 --> 00:32:01.092
It really has been a pleasure and I know we will continue to stay connected and you never know.
00:32:01.092 --> 00:32:04.961
Keep your eye on things, people, you never know what's gonna happen.
00:32:05.741 --> 00:32:06.656
Um, thank you so.
00:32:06.906 --> 00:32:09.457
So much for being with us today.
00:32:09.487 --> 00:32:16.057
Make sure I told you that something would happen as you listened to this and we did not lie.
00:32:16.626 --> 00:32:23.707
I'm sure you felt its, um, Selma's energy, her ability to.
00:32:24.761 --> 00:32:26.142
I don't think she stopped smiling.
00:32:26.142 --> 00:32:38.711
If you haven't, if you're not watching on the YouTube channel, she is a absolute beam of joy and light and it exudes from all of her pores.
00:32:38.711 --> 00:32:51.251
And there's a reason because she has a mission and a belief that when you give back to yourself and you take what's given to you and you take action to see.
00:32:51.487 --> 00:32:56.527
The positive side of it and what you can do to move yourself forward every single day.
00:32:56.977 --> 00:32:57.517
Movement motion.
00:32:58.826 --> 00:33:02.366
Through nature, look up at the sky, be connected.
00:33:02.366 --> 00:33:06.207
You are already take what's here and available for you.
00:33:06.207 --> 00:33:11.217
So make sure that you follow, like share, give us reviews.
00:33:11.307 --> 00:33:16.076
They help all of us spread this incredible message far and wide.
00:33:16.106 --> 00:33:21.717
Have a wonderful day everyone, and make sure you go check out tonight's sunset as day one.
00:33:22.436 --> 00:33:23.217
Yes.