Stacy Raske - How To Heal And Become The Most Iconic Version Of Yourself

SPEAKER_00 0:04

This is the Beyond the Story Podcast, a show that goes way beyond the story. Subestim Fas. Stacy Raskey, what's up, girl?

SPEAKER_01 0:27

Hey, how's it going?

SPEAKER_00 0:28

It's going fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

We're uh exactly.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

I don't know what day it is, and I don't think I'm alone because it's that week in between Christmas and New Year's that we're recording this episode. So um I'm trying to I'm trying to understand. It's Thursday. I have the date here on the top of my calendar. That helps out a lot.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

It is still 2021. It is. And I don't recall New Year's yet.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

Not for long. So not for long. So you and I had a chance to connect. Uh, I joined Apex in July, I think. And we connected uh online. And then we got a chance to meet in real life at the live event. I don't know when that was. I think that was November. November. There we go. A couple months ago. And uh got the opportunity to hear you uh hear you rock the stage and share your story a little bit. And and we've stayed in touch since then. And and I thought, hey, let's get you on the show. I want to talk a little bit more about that story that I was able to hear um live and in person at the event uh and bring that here to the podcast. So thanks for taking some time out of your day to hang out.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

You're welcome. You know, what else do you do the week between Christmas and New Year's?

SPEAKER_00 1:31

You try to figure out what day it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Yeah, absolutely. So you have quite the interesting story and quite just the first thing that shows up for me when I hear your story is transformation, radical transformation. Uh, you you were in the military, you went to a some radical transformations through life that have brought you to present day to become the authority and speaker and and and entrepreneur extraordinaire that you are. But let's back up a little bit. Let's go back to the beginning of the story. Let's talk about where this whole thing began, that when you decided, you know what, I'm going in the military. And then after that, when you decided that some major life changes were were gonna happen and you put those wheels in motion that in turn brought you to where we're at uh today. So let's back up a little bit and go back to the beginning of the story.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, it it is interesting because I would say there was so much that created the foundation for how I was showing up in the world that sparked my decision to join the army at 22. You know, not everybody, most people do it like right out of high school. And I had a few years of college and a few years off before deciding to do that. Um, and and it's interesting because thinking back to like childhood trauma and and moving a lot and instability and lack of safety and a lot of emotionally unavailable parents, you know, sort of set me up to constantly need external validation through achievement and really no boundaries whatsoever. So the catalyst, even before getting to my rock bottom moment, I recognize my need for structure, for boundaries, for safety and stability. I was still at 22 looking for that externally, externally, like I think a lot of you know 20-somethings do, not realizing the wisdom, life wisdom yet. Um, and so it was join the military for that radical change. Because I am kind of apparently one of those extreme people that's like, let's do some crazy shit to make some big stuff happen. So, you know, why not join the military, join the army, enlisted active duty at the beginning of 2001. And since I did chemical and biological warfare detection, my first deployment was actually to the Pentagon right after 9-11 to clean up anthrax. So good times.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Wow. Talk about timing, huh? You must have thought, what did I get myself into?

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Um, not really. I I think it was just, you know, everything, it's all divine timing.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

Everything was exactly how it needed to be. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

So how long were you in the army?

SPEAKER_01 4:05

I enlisted for four years, um, but I got hurt when I was in Iraq. So I was medically discharged just a hair over three.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

So what happened after that?

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Um, got my degree and was recruited by a pharmaceutical company. So I was a pharmaceutical chemist for seven years, and and then it was just building a life of shoulds. It was wearing the mask of who I should be, following the prescribed American dream, checking all the boxes, right? Yeah, you get the college degree, you get the corporate job, you get married, you buy the house, you have the cars, you know, all the stuff while constantly rejecting myself. No coping skills, totally out of control internally, going through the PTSD cycles of depression and anxiety. And because I didn't have a toolkit, really, um, it was just self-medicating with food, drugs, alcohol, medication, television, social media, you know, even at my worst self-harm, just something to change how I was feeling in the moment. And it was a downward spiral affecting my health, my marriage, my career, which I lost was well over. I mean, I'm I'm half my body weight now than I was at my peak. Um, it was just chronic health conditions and tons of medications. And it just came to a head at the end of 2014, where I had my rock bottom moment of just standing in my kitchen, self-medicating as usual, with food and alcohol, bawling my eyes out as, you know, I've created this prison externally that reflects the internal prison I was struggling with. And just had this moment of clarity when I asked myself, I'm like, what the hell are you doing? And I actually for the first time received the answer. And it was, well, you're trying to make yourself look as ugly on the outside as you feel on the inside because you hate yourself.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Yeah. Yep. And then the follow-up to that was, and you made this. Like it's your responsibility, your choices. And it was interesting because that was the last time I was suicidal as well. I was really a lacking community. I felt so disconnected from everyone and everything. Um, but the beauty was when I woke up the next day, I was legitimately done with, okay, I created this, which means I can change it. And I was totally done. And I told my my therapist, I'm like, I'm throwing in the towel, I'm totally done. And it was, I was done with trying to control anything other than myself. And that's what I'd spent a lifetime doing, trying to control how other people perceived me, their thoughts, their feelings, you know, being the people pleaser, the achievement, the everything external and internally, totally out of control.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

I'm just fascinated how you arrive there on your own, though. Normally there's got to be some sort of intervention. Uh for me, it was a personal development course. For some, it's jail. For other people's, it's, you know, it's, it's, they don't, they don't learn the lesson. It's death. Um, it's a dear friend that shows up. So to be able to have that, even in that space of, I mean, suicidal, is about to as dark as it gets. Uh, and you know, self-medicating. And I I love how you, you, you came to all these realizations. Most people don't do this. I've been on the path of healing for the past, I would say, eight years and got real real, real dialed in on it in in 2016 for the same purposes. But I I got on a date, I got on Tinder to find a girlfriend. And I met a girl that was currently in that course, and she kept on, you know, saying, hey, you should check it out, you should check it out. And I was the personal development expert, just asked me. I was in integration mode, and she was like, You should really try this. And I was so, and I had done landmark form, I did Tony Robbins, I was a, I was a personal development junkie, but the integration part, well, I was gonna do it my way. And I'm gonna take what Tony has to say and do it on my terms, not when it actually needs to get done. Yet I still found myself in this vicious cycle. And when I met her, what do relationships do? They're just a magnifying glass to be able to help us better understand exactly what is there. I don't know that I would have arrived because I kept on, I was frustrated with myself, but I was never to a point where I was like, this is it. I'm done with the way things are now. Things must change. It was almost like I always say that personal development found me or the help, the work found me. And what I didn't know going into that was that everything you just got done saying really resonated with me. I was an enraged, judgmental, fingerporting asshole because I hated Sebastian. And if I hated Sebastian, how in the world could I love anybody else? Then I'm wondering why I'm single and I don't have anybody. Why am I so angry? And why do I want to punch my dad in the face? And why am I still so angry? Once I was able to navigate through that process of self-healing and realize, listen, dude, until you get right with Sebastian, none of it's gonna make sense. And it's none of it's gonna fall into place. So congrats to to you finding that realization on your own there in your kitchen, saying this doesn't work anymore. Tomorrow it's all changing. Because, and and I a lot of that, you know, is is is mindset. I mean, that's like you gotta, you gotta want that shit. You gotta have something. That's a God-given gift that he implanted inside you to say, Stacy, this is stacy, and we're done. All right, Stacey. All right, tomorrow, brand new Stacy. I mean, that's some, that's some deep dig in there. So I love that. And I I was mind-blown at your transformational pictures that you put up on the screen. I'm like, there's no fucking way that's her. There is no way that's her. And um it is, and that's a true testament to actually doing the work and staying committed to the work. So that was just the very beginning. You making these decisions to make these changes. You went through this radical transformation. And then what other things started to happen? Because I I've learned, I don't know about you, that when we just make a conscious decision to shift and heal, those around us start to make similar decisions and we don't have to do shit about it. We just have to keep showing up as ourselves, 100% ourselves. So, what took place after that?

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Um, well, you know, I always warn everybody is when when we start making changes, especially when we've kind of insulated ourselves with people who, you know, are similar, because obviously misery loves companies. So my husband and I were codependent AF with each other, you know, and and numbed out and avoided in the same ways, which was a lot of bonding. But then I start making those changes and it forces other people around you to change somewhat when they don't want to, because the tactics, the rules of engagement are changing.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

And you know, things kind of get worse before they get better when you discover something like boundaries. And I will tell you, that first year was miserable. I had no support. Messy. I didn't even know what a coach was, like no concept of like coaches or mentors or anything like that. And I'm just like, what? And I, you know, the easy part was was losing 100 pounds that year. That was easy. Wow, our bodies are amazing. What's been crazy is continuing to follow that by healing the inner worthiness wounds. That is what is the constant, constant effort to allow all the rest of my success to be effortless.

unknown 11:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Oh, I found the majority of the because you're like, what for a long time? I'm like, what well, okay, cool. Yeah, I believe that or I feel that, or and that's not it. It's really getting in and going back to the beginning of the story and asking yourself, what happened? For me, it was my my parents got divorced. I had a broken relationship with my dad. And for 40 years, I carried that my dad did this, my dad did that, this person did this, and this happened to me. And I think we write, we write our own victim narrative, and then we start to live in it, and then we take it a step further. We start to enroll people into that process because life is in life is enrollment, right? So we we start to enroll other people into a story that isn't even true. But I've found that the the the the the deepest healing that I've done is really getting in and realizing what really happened. And when I go back to the beginning of the story, childhood, and I say, What happened? You know, why I was I was constantly tried to be silenced. All I wanted to do was talk, and I was hyper. And look at me now. That's what I do for a living. I talk and be I'm hyper for a living. But when I was a kid, I tried to be silenced there, and everyone just wanted me to shut up. And and I'll never forget, I was in a I was in a ceremony that I a healing ceremony that I did, and and I'll never forget the practitioner looked at me and she asked me, she said, as as a little boy, as a little Sebbie, what did you do? And I said, I didn't do anything. And she said, bingo. And she said, and what did your dad do? And I said, you know what? He didn't do anything either. And she said, bingo. He did exactly the best that he knew how to do. And I tell you, Stacy, it was almost instantaneous that that healing takes place from a space of ownership. And I think that if we all start with ownership and the truth with ourselves, boom, there, there's the tipping point.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

It that's so true. That's really what it is. I mean, being able to step into our power, our purpose, our pleasure, our prosperity, you know, to be those influential leaders creating that impact in the world, we have to walk inside our story. We've got to own our shit. Yeah. And until we're willing to do that, nothing is truly gonna change. And things are gonna continue to feel hard as high performers as we are. We're gonna continue playing out the sabotage after success cycle all the time because it's challenging those deepest inner worthiness wounds. And we can have that powerful instantaneous transformation when we own that story. Now, the integration period and the implementation of new ways of being is the work, but the healing can be immediate. I mean, literally, I'm in the embracing the suck and feeling the burn right now as I've been sitting for the last 45 days in that period of integration and expansion because new big up levels happen, new level, same devil. Right? It's like the next inner worthiness wound of the same thing, and it's the inner child and whatever has happened around those things, but that's what ends up driving the show. But the more we step in our story and we own that, we own our story, we own our power. We're able to just influence those around us for the better. And it helps everyone step up. My husband is better, my mother is better, it's transformed all of my relationships. Most importantly, and the one that I've been focusing on this whole healing journey is that relationship with me. I get to parent my inner child and heal and support and love in all of the ways my parents didn't, when and society, because right, all the schools that say, hey, you're hyper, you're whatever, you're unfocused, so something's wrong with you. But all of those wounds, we get to be the parent that we didn't have. Obviously, we can let that go and say, all right, they were working with the toolkit they had. I don't have that attachment to anything external anymore. I'm still constantly working on my self-respect and my self-love.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

And I know what it feels like when I hit one of those wounds. And it's like, ah, yeah, those are called triggers.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

Those are called things.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

Yes, it is. I'm triggered as hell right now, you know, and it's like sitting in the emotion of it and then using my toolkit, asking for help, reaching out to my support team. There it is. Being the example because I work with my clients as a coach and a mentor, but that that is because I'm leading by example. I do the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

Right. Yeah, you gotta get that. That that inner child needs another safe.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

I call mine and sometimes needs a spanking.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Exactly. And I need to know who the boss is too, to be able to say, listen, you're safe. It's all good. Whatever we thought, not true. This is the this is the new narrative here. Uh kind of like our subconscious, you know. It's like, listen, fucker, you're not going anywhere, but I'm the boss.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

I mean, and that's it. The subconscious is our inner child, which is our inner rebel, aka sabotage, right? Instant gratification versus delayed gratification. Be a freaking adulting versus really being in that place with the inner child. But as the adult for ourselves, we have to create that space to nurture the inner child, the play, the fun, the disconnect, the coloring, the painting, the going up and tearing the world up on, you know, RVs or RVs, ATVs or um out on the boat, like whatever it is. We've got to do that stuff and have fun.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Yeah, absolutely. I agree with that. I've been doing a lot of that now at uh my ripe age of 42. And uh I still ride a skateboard. I just bought a pack of markers and some crayons and a sketchbook. Um, I'm launching an NFT collection next year. I mean, stuff that I thought that I would never be able to live my inner child wildest dreams out are now a reality. And like the norm, it's not weird. Like to be able to say, I, I, I, I enjoy good tequila and adult coloring. Like, that's not weird anymore. Like, right? Um, but uh I I heard a quote not too long ago that said triggers are our inner child anticipating trauma. What are your thoughts on that statement?

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Yeah, I think that is definitely an interesting it is because it's a reaction as opposed to a response. Right. Right. And and you know, when I did my talk and I was talking about boundaries and and how it's responsibility, right? You know, being responsible for what you actually have control over, which is you, and letting go of everything else. But it is the wall goes up. So responsibility really is our ability to respond. But when we have that emotional trigger happen, it's immediately putting us in that past emotional moment and bringing it into the present. So it is, it's that whoop walls go up. Defense. So unsafe is the primitive brain, says unsafe. Right. So the walls go up, and the and what's interesting about it is we tend to think that the body follows the emotion, and that's not always the case. The physical response of our body is more often the precursor to the emotion we feel after it. We feel the tightness in the chest or or in our diaphragm before we even have the thought or the emotion to go with it. And this is why it, you know, lowering the central nervous system is so vital to really speeding up the healing process. That's why the the modality or the process I've created, this influential leadership process is we're addressing mind, body, and soul at the same time. Because you can do all the work, you can do the routines, you can check the boxes, but if we're not addressing the trauma stored in the body and in the energy body in you as well, you're still gonna end up playing out the same damn cycles.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Absolutely. Let's talk about awareness before we get started, before we we we segue into what you got going on on the business front and the work that you're doing, uh the incredible work that you're doing. I hear people rave about your work and what you do here, but um I totally add out and forgot where I was segueing into. You're welcome. You're very you're very you're very welcome. Um oh, there we there we go. Um where does awareness come into play with this whole healing process? Because I don't know about you, but I am so, as my 20-year-old daughter would say, lit when it comes to people that are unaware and that are that have a mask on. Like I am, I'm like the mask police. And I'm like, are you gonna take that fucker off or wear it forever?

SPEAKER_01 20:20

Like that's I know somebody said I should title my next book, like Unmasking.

unknown 20:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Like literally, because it is I I've recognized I've gotten to a place of physical discomfort around those people.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Yes. Me too. Okay, just making sure it's not me.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

No, no, no, it's not, it's not. So there's there's the awareness, and it actually I almost find it more frustrating because like people in their their ignorance is bliss. Like, I see you, I remember what that was like. Awesome. Do you do you? I'm not here, not taking responsibility for it. I don't necessarily engage in the small talk and the fluff per se, but I'm like, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

Small talk's a good indicator that you're dealing with a mask.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Yeah, like I can meet you where you're at in this particular acquaintance level situation. It's fine because we're standing in line in an elevator, whatever. But where I find it more um visceral of a reaction are the people in my world who are in the place of awareness and take no action to change it. No responsibility to change it. I I like literally, responsibility is such an emotional and energetic and intellectual trigger for me. Like, okay, you're sitting here dumping all this energy, venting about whatever in this sort of victim place. You're aware, you're empowered enough to be aware. So do something about it. Right. So that's where I really. Struggle socially connecting with people and being around those people, like it creates a thing for me. And if they're really like me, then I'm like, whoa, there's just a little too much of a mirror here. Like, I don't want to deal with that.

unknown 22:17

Right.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Check. Yeah. Like, but really it is. It's it's when they're fully aware, but not willing to take the responsibility enough to make the change they desire. That's just kind of draining.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

No, it is. I call them assholes. Those are people that constantly ask for advice and don't do shit with it.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

So yes, they are. Yes, exactly. I agree. Not trying to name call here, but you know. No, but I stop giving advice. Like there's a point where I'm like, I'll, you know, placate you with one or two things, but I'm like, I'm not investing here.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

Sure. No, especially, I mean, I preface everything with are you open to direct and honest feedback? And if, you know, if if people say, Yeah, absolutely, lay it on me. Cool. Are you sure? Because I'm gonna lay it on you in a very constructive, loving way. It's a hug with a slap in the back of the head, but I just want to make sure you're open to it. Because if you're not open, it's just a waste of time anyway. And then my, you know, I usually ask a question like, so how much longer? And they're like, So how much longer for what? How much longer can you go on like this? Like what? You do you not see it at all? Like there's just a there's a clear mask on and just a disconnect from the the world of reality and awareness on here. And that starts, and then you see, if they're starting to, people are starting to get a little, you know, getting a little uncomfortable. Yeah, a little uncomfy, then hey, maybe we should scale the conversation back and maybe because people have to be ready. You got to be ready for change and you got to be ready to heal. If you're not ready, in fact, I would go as too far to say you try to help. That's that's that that's the that's kind of the misnomer a lot of people get is that they go through this healing journey and it's like, hey, okay, well, now I'm super healer. Let me go heal mom, let me go heal the neighbor, let me go heal the maintenance guy downstairs. And that's a huge mistake because, like you said earlier, you can only meet people to the extent of of where you're at and the work that you've actually done. And when you try to help people that aren't ready to be helped yet, in fact, you you cause more trauma.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

And a lot of people do, and they don't realize how much you have to be trauma conscious and very, you know, trauma educated to be in that place. And and I I did it. I mean, before I was even a coach, I, you know, like any new quote unquote religion, right? When we're when we start on a bandwagon and we see and experience massive results, we drank the Kool-Aid and we're all in. So now that I'm on my personal development journey, I stood on my soapbox and told everybody else how they needed to improve their health and uh start their transformation journey and all of that. Like I fully own that until I went through my coaching certification program and really getting it certified and credentialed and informed on how to facilitate transformation. Yeah. Oh yeah. I was an offender.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

It happens, it happens, but I I think that I get I found that the this the best solution is our our own awareness of how we we're showing up in the world. No, number one, because if if we're honed in on that and we're dialed in on that, not on a narcissistic, uh, not in a narcissistic way, but just extremely aware of the our our ability to love each other, love, love, love ourselves and how we show up in the world, we don't have to do anything for other people to shift. Cause I can assure you, if they are ready to shift and they want it bad enough, you showing up the way you do only educates or excuse me, only motivates them and puts them in gear. It's crazy. Like the people that I've seen shift on like, I get done and I'm like, did did that phone call just happen? Like they called to apologize to me, and I was the one that needed to make the phone call. So it's just crazy how this world, and if that's it, that's magic right there. That is a gift. That is, that is the calling on my life. The calling on my life was to heal and become the best version of myself because there are along with the calling on our lives, there's people that are assigned to that calling. And for us not to show up, I'll never forget 11 years ago having a conversation when I didn't know what was next. And someone looked across from me and said, Sebastian, what's next? And I said, I have no idea. And she said, uh, these were my offended days, so I was really offended with her reply. She said, uh, that's a fucking problem. And I thought, the audacity of this girl telling me that how I not, what I'm not, but I couldn't even get the words out. And I said, you know what? I'm gonna humble myself for a second and ask you, you know, why is that? Why is it a problem that I don't know what's next for my life? She said, Let me ask you a question. And I said, go for it. She said, So who's missing out? Because Sebastian doesn't show up. And I'm telling you, Stacy Raskey, those antennas went up, and I was like a like I had seen a ghost, and I thought, holy cow, I know there's a calling on my life. I just haven't figured it out yet. Little did I know that would lead to the path of healing that would in turn lead to the work that I'm doing, which is, yeah, the service is podcasting, but the work, the work is impact. The work is taking somebody from I was here, and then the podcast was a catalyst for me to become who I needed to be able to do and to hear these stories and get this feedback from people while still doing the work. I'm committed to it for the rest of my life. Every day I turn my shower on ice cold at the end for a couple seconds, and I tell myself, Sebastian, I'm committed to the work every fucking day of the week, whether I don't want to do it or not. But, you know, that that's this is this is living our purpose, I believe. This is living in alignment with ourselves, with the assignment on our life, and most importantly, the people that are assigned to that assignment, knowing that, man, we we've got a gift, a gift to heal, uh, and a gift to create impact. And that ripple effect, you know, ripples become waves. And and I'm all about uh, you know, let's let's go double overhead with this thing in life here with the wave.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Well, and I mean you just highlighted exactly what it means to be influential. Right. When I talk about this next level of influence and leadership, yeah, is it's we are leading by example, and it's by showing up as our best because we're taking that time to do the work for us, is what helps influence others and guides them. It's just our energy, who we are being. That's what becomes effortless to creating the impact, living our purpose, reaching all of our goals, and really being our best self. And you know, it really is such it is such an energy. I mean, that's the feedback I get from people all the time. They're like, man, I just like hanging out with you. I like talking to you, like it feels so good.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

You get you get that those people make comments like uh something different about you. Yeah, there's something I don't know what it is, I just like it. And I'm not saying I get that all the time. I get that a lot. I get that a lot.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

It's funny. I mean, I get the sometimes people like the the way they articulate it, I've gotten the wow, you're such an empowered woman without being a feminist. I've I've gotten the man, you're so stoic. And I was like, oh, really? Why do you say that? Like you were on stage and the tech is not working and all the stuff was happening, and they're like, you were so chill and just rode right through it. Like, what if the message is the most important? I'm like, I will tell you, I have no idea what I said on that stage. I know I had notes for a reason to help guide it, but I have no idea. I still need to watch the video.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

I love when that happens. That's when you know that God gave you the words that you need and that it's big, it's bigger than us because there's no way I can get up there and do half the stuff that I do. I have a good, like you said, I got a good general outline on my head, and it is my gift to be able to communicate. Um, but sometimes I do get off stage and I'm like, what the fuck did I just say? I mean, I understand the title of the talk that was on there, but I and then and then you're getting great feedback. So you're like, well, I did something right on here.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

But um, yeah, everybody's like, how was it? How did you? I'm like, I have no idea. I have no idea until people started telling me. They're like, no my God, it was so good. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

Yeah. So let's talk about your work a little bit here that we're doing here. This this influential work you're doing. I'm seeing a lot of posts happening within Apex. I know you're doing, you do uh several events a year. And uh in fact, the event's called Influential. It's coming up in February in Tampa, right where you're located, right?

SPEAKER_01 30:37

Yeah, yeah. Influential impact.

unknown 30:40

Love it.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

Because it's really, you know, launching your 2022 for the highest level of leadership and impact you are called to make. Leadership truly is an inside job. So what we're doing over the two days, it's a very experiential, because that's our ecosystem, is again supporting your physical body, mental body, uh, emotional body, and spiritual body at the same time. And then really having those powerful breakthroughs internally to show up so much more fully in that expression of yourself that you are called to be, you know, to allow that success, that influence and that impact to be massive just because you're showing up better. So this is gonna be, you know, two full days of massive breakthroughs and I'll feed you. Breakfast and lunch.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

There you go. Breakfast and lunch. That's tough to argue with on there. So, what are the dates on this? I'm gonna have a link to the event uh in the show notes. That's in the description of this episode you're listening to, in case you don't know what the hell a show note is. So don't worry about writing it down if you're driving or listening or running or just sitting on the couch uh because it'll be included on there. But what are the dates? Uh, and it's happening in Tampa, Florida, down here in South Florida.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Yes, because if you're anywhere in February that's not Florida, it's probably gonna be cold. So come to Florida in February. It's the 18th and 19th. My birthday. Yay! That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

That means it's gonna be an incredible event.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

I mean, it will be, absolutely. I mean, that was the thing. We're like, well, who where else do you want to be in February when it's cold, potentially? Yes. Come to Florida, have some amazing breakthroughs, really launch your 2022, and uh meet some amazing people. We keep it very intimate because this is about creating that safe space for that deep inner work. Um, but we do it in a high performance way. I'm all about hacks and quantum leaping forward. So that doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be like anything else you've done. I'm always like, it's very experiential, it's quite a bit different.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

Yeah, that's always the unknown's always the fun part, especially if you've never done any of this stuff before. You're like, well, what can I expect? You can expect two days of content, but you can also expect two days of breakthroughs. Yeah. Which is kind of the that that just blows people's mind even more on there. Well, it sounds incredible, and uh, I'm so glad that we got a chance to connect uh here on the podcast and talk about the event. I'm excited to see what the outcome is. I know there's a lot of people, a lot of familiar faces and our peers uh involved with it that are coming in too from all over the country, which is uh which is just great to see. It's so encouraging to see how our community over in Apex really lifts each other up and supports each other. That is what a true community really is uh all about here. So I wish you wishing you the best on that event on here. Like I said, I'll have a link to the show or link to the event in the show notes. So be sure to check that out. A link to connect with Stacy as well to all of her website or contact information. So if you've got questions, you're like, listen, this is the girl that I need in my life, then you're gonna be able to reach out and contact. Otherwise, you can hit me up and I'll make a personal introduction too. Stacey, it's it's an absolute pleasure. I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to hang out with me. It's been great to get to know you a little better. I feel like we got a little, we have a little bit more in common other than Florida, South Florida in common now that uh both on that healing path. Not everybody chooses that chooses that path, and very few people find it, but I'm I'm trying to change all that. And I know you are too.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Yeah, it's why we shine so brightly.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Absolutely. This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Yeah. Hey, come back, come back to the show sometime soon, will you?

SPEAKER_01 34:14

We'll do. Thank you so much for having me. It's been a pleasure.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Oh, it's been my pleasure, ladies and gentlemen. Stacey Raski. Until next time. Thanks so much for tuning into this episode of the Beyond the Story Podcast. We sure do appreciate it. If you haven't done so already, make sure you're subscribed to the show. This way you'll get updates as new episodes become available. If you feel so inclined, please leave us a review. Be sure to appreciate it. Signing off from the podcast, launchlab.com studios. We'll talk to you next time.