STOP BEFORE YOU START
On this episode of The Karen Kenney Show, I talk about the power of stopping before you start - especially when it comes to how we communicate with others.
I share a little story about catching myself as I was about to fire off a sarcastic response (classic Masshole move!) and realizing that just because something comes easy or is a habit, doesn’t mean it’s always the best way to show up.
Sometimes, it’s worth pausing and asking ourselves, “Is this really how I want to respond?”
I dive into how our brains get wired over time for certain automatic reactions, like sarcasm or quick replies, and how the speed of today’s world makes it even harder to slow down.
We’re all so used to “instant” responses and moving at the pace of technology, but that doesn’t always serve us - or the people we’re talking to.
I talk about checking in with yourself before you hit send -or- how I like to pause before I open my big fat mouth! 😆
It’s good to get a grip on where you and your nervous system are at: How’s your mood? Are you tired, angry, hungry, or stressed?
Because that stuff totally colors the words, tone, and temperature of how we come across.
I also share some of my favorite tricks for being a clearer, more thoughtful communicator - like numbering info in emails, using bold text, and breaking things up with a little more space - so people can actually take it in.
It’s all about making things easier for the person on the other end -and- saving yourself from a bunch of back-and-forth later.
And, if we all took a second to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, and how it might feel to be on the receiving end of things, the world would be a much kinder, more compassionate place.
So, the big takeaway?
Slow down, check in with yourself, and be intentional with your words and actions.
Whether you’re writing, talking, or interacting with others in your life, you’ve got the power to choose a new or different way in every moment.
Sending you lots of love and encouragement to leave everything and everyone a little better than you found them! ❤️
KK’S KEY TAKEAWAYS:
• Stop before you start running your mouth or reacting from conditioning, habits, or patterns.
• Pausing before you respond helps you communicate more intentionally and avoid knee-jerk reactions.
• Checking in with your mood and mindset before replying to people, emails, and messages can prevent misunderstandings and unnecessary conflict.
• Using clear formatting in written communication - like numbering, bold text, and short paragraphs - makes your communication easier for others to understand.
• Taking the time to consider how your words will land shows compassion and helps build better relationships.
• Try to put yourself in the other person’s shoes and imagine being on the receiving end.
• You can always choose a new way to respond, no matter how ingrained your habits have been.
• Slowing down and being thoughtful with your words and actions can make a positive difference for you and others. Win-Win!
BIO:
Spiritual mentor and writer Karen Kenney uses humor and dynamic storytelling to bring a down-to-earth, no-BS perspective to self-development.
Bringing together tools that coach the conscious and unconscious mind, Karen helps clients deepen their connections with Self, and discover their unique understandings of spirituality.
Her practice combines neuroscience, subconscious reprogramming, Integrative Hypnosis, somatics, spiritual mentoring, and other holistic modalities to help regulate the nervous system, examine internal narratives, remove blocks, and reimagine what’s possible.
A passionate yoga teacher, long-time student of A Course in Miracles, and Gateless Writing instructor, Karen is a frequent speaker and retreat leader. Via her programs The Quest and The Nest, she coaches individuals and groups.
With The Karen Kenney Podcast, she encourages listeners to shift from a thought system of fear to one of love, compassion, and personal responsibility.
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Transcript
It's a Karen Kenney show.
Speaker:Hey you guys. Welcome to the Karen Kenney show. I'm wicked
Speaker:excited to be here, and I'm gonna do my best. I know I've
Speaker:said it. I know I've said before, but I'm really, really,
Speaker:really, really, really gonna try to keep this one short, short
Speaker:and to the point short and sweet, with maybe a little bit
Speaker:of spice. We'll see. Okay, so
Speaker:as you know, I always use this to have a little story or
Speaker:something like the inspiration, like where the show came from. I
Speaker:had my brain, my brain
Speaker:come up with it. And as usual, it's just like everyday life,
Speaker:like something happens in life, some universal thing kind of
Speaker:happens. I make it personal, and then I try to share universal,
Speaker:spiritual principles that maybe will help us to just, you know,
Speaker:basically, just get out of our own way and stop being maybe a
Speaker:little nicer to each other and leading with more love and
Speaker:spreading more love in the world. Okay, so, you know how,
Speaker:like somebody like text messages you, or send you an email or
Speaker:voicemail, or, what a voxel, like some, you know, WhatsApp,
Speaker:some sort of communication. Well, I got a text like the
Speaker:other day, and all of a sudden,
Speaker:and all of a sudden, I found myself responding very quickly
Speaker:with a little bit of sarcasm, like, trying to be funny, like,
Speaker:because there's certain people, like, first of all, if you're a
Speaker:New England kid or a mass hole, like, sarcasm is just like, it's
Speaker:almost like a default mode. Sometimes you've practiced,
Speaker:you've practiced that so often that the neural network in your
Speaker:brain, like that is a really, I think of it like being thick.
Speaker:I'm like, That is a very well traveled neural network to
Speaker:respond with sarcasm. So but it was really sarcasm to make the
Speaker:other person laugh. But even still, like, I stopped myself.
Speaker:And I stopped myself because, as I was saying, sarcasm is easy
Speaker:for me, but that's not how I always want to respond. It's not
Speaker:how I always want to communicate. Um. Now, don't get
Speaker:me wrong, sometimes I like to be a little fresh, but you know,
Speaker:just by knowing me, there'll be times when I say to people, I'm
Speaker:not being fresh. I said it all the time. I'm not being fresh.
Speaker:And I thought to myself, well, if you have to lead with, I'm
Speaker:not being fresh to, like, put them on alert, is that, because
Speaker:you're fresh a lot.
Speaker:Now, look, being fresh. Being fresh is fun sometimes, but it's
Speaker:not always the appropriate thing, okay? But because sarcasm
Speaker:is so, like, kind of automated in my brain, and it can be a
Speaker:very automated response, you know, and you know, like, double
Speaker:A minions, if you grew up anywhere, pretty much in, like,
Speaker:New England, like, it's guaranteed, right, that a lot of
Speaker:people and I remember my sweetie saying to me, we both lived out
Speaker:in Los Angeles, we both lived out in California for long
Speaker:periods of time. And he was saying that when he first moved
Speaker:out there, that his his girlfriend, one of his
Speaker:girlfriends at the time, and people that he knew, like, they
Speaker:just kind of didn't get, like, the whole sarcasm thing. Like,
Speaker:to them, they're like, like, Why? Why is that even a thing?
Speaker:Like, why would you want to talk to people that way? You know?
Speaker:And I found this so fascinating.
Speaker:And, you know, we get rewarded a lot. We get rewarded a lot for
Speaker:our sarcasm, for being fast, for being quick, for being witty,
Speaker:for being like, being able to like, like, like, you know, poke
Speaker:the bear with the stick. I hate, actually, I hate, I don't like
Speaker:that, but we know how to like, you know, like little zingers.
Speaker:You know what I'm talking about. But here's the thing, as a
Speaker:writer and as a communicator, I want to be more intentional with
Speaker:my words. I want to, I want to not just do things habitually.
Speaker:You know, I think that there's a lot of things that get patterned
Speaker:into us that are really good, like learning how to drive a
Speaker:car, riding a bike, tying our shoes, being able to, like, do
Speaker:certain things. You know, there's certain neural networks
Speaker:that get created in our brains. We become so patterned and
Speaker:habituated we can do those things without even thinking
Speaker:like nobody, really, I shouldn't say nobody, most people really
Speaker:don't have to think about when they go to brush their teeth,
Speaker:right? We know how to do it. It's so automated, like, it's
Speaker:like, we're little robots, right? But I want to be able to
Speaker:stop and think about what I'm about to say, what I'm about to
Speaker:do, what I'm about to communicate. I want those
Speaker:thoughts, words and actions to actually represent what's in my
Speaker:hat, what's on my mind, like how I truly feel, how I want to be
Speaker:in the world, not just from what I've always done, or this is
Speaker:just how it is. Or because I wasn't thinking, You know what I
Speaker:mean? Okay, so the other day, I was thinking about this, and I
Speaker:was like, sometimes you just better stop before you start,
Speaker:you know? And that's what I thought to myself when I went to
Speaker:text back, I was like, stop before you start running your
Speaker:mouth. Stop before you start. In.
Speaker:Making your little jokes stop before you say something that
Speaker:you might you know, that might get missing, misinterpreted or
Speaker:it wasn't actually what you meant, like stop before you
Speaker:start getting yourself in trouble type of a thing. You
Speaker:know what I mean. And so I thought that this could be
Speaker:applied to greater
Speaker:circumstances, and it could also be wicked helpful. So I'm going
Speaker:to kind of come at this from a couple of different directions,
Speaker:because I don't think enough of us, especially in this day and
Speaker:age of
Speaker:of the internet and social media and whatever, and just people's
Speaker:nervous systems like this is one of the things I always say to
Speaker:people like we are not meant to live at the speed of gigabytes,
Speaker:right? Like information travels so fast these days, and people
Speaker:have kind of become uncomfortable with having to
Speaker:wait for a response. People are impatient. People expect
Speaker:immediacy, like right now respond. Do this thing? Faster,
Speaker:faster, faster. I'm like, those are machines. Those are
Speaker:computers, right? That's not humans. Like, I always say,
Speaker:like, I shouldn't have to, like, hurry up and respond because you
Speaker:are, like, impatient, or, like, you throw an emergency in my
Speaker:like, your emergency. You're trying to make it by emergency?
Speaker:I'm like, yeah, no. So the world is moving at such a fast clip
Speaker:that we sometimes just do things automated. We don't even think
Speaker:about it. And so my whole thing is about like, sometimes we just
Speaker:got to stop. We got to put on the brakes. So these are kind of
Speaker:some of the things I ask myself
Speaker:when I find myself about to like, let's say, write an email,
Speaker:make a post on social media, send out send out my newsletter,
Speaker:do a podcast, talk to a friend before I open my big fat mouth,
Speaker:something that I often say to myself is, you better stop
Speaker:before you Start. Right? So I want to ask myself these things
Speaker:like, how's my nervous system right now? Like, where's it at?
Speaker:Where's my mind at? How am I feeling? Because sometimes, you
Speaker:know, you know, in the in different like programs, like 12
Speaker:step programs and stuff like that, they'll often say to
Speaker:people like, are you tired? Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Are
Speaker:you lonely? You know whatever like, what's going on inside of
Speaker:you? Because before you make a decision that you can't unmake,
Speaker:you know what I mean. You like slow down and ask yourself,
Speaker:like, what's going on inside of you? So I like to to make sure
Speaker:that I am not responding or reacting to things from a place
Speaker:of fear. I want to be able to choose them from a place of
Speaker:like, Yeah, this is a choice that I'm consciously making. I'm
Speaker:not just reacting from my history. I'm not reacting from
Speaker:my trigger or my trauma. I'm not reacting from this is just how
Speaker:I've always done it. If I have an attitude, like, sometimes you
Speaker:need a little attitude adjustment,
Speaker:you know what I mean? So I'm like, I want to be able to stop
Speaker:and before, before I start running my mouth, before I start
Speaker:typing with my little fingers, before I hit record. You know? I
Speaker:want to be mindful. I want to be thinking about some shit. So
Speaker:what's going on inside of me. Because if I'm feeling agitated,
Speaker:if I'm feeling anxious, if I'm feeling stressed, if I'm feeling
Speaker:impatient, there is no doubt that that is going to affect my
Speaker:tone, my tone of voice. It's going to affect my brevity, or
Speaker:how long I write a thing, how friendly I'm being, or how open
Speaker:I'm being, how vulnerable and warm and compassionate and
Speaker:connecting. So if I'm offline, if my nervous system has been
Speaker:hijacked and I'm in like, some sort of fear loop, or doing some
Speaker:weird shit up in my brain and my body's not feeling great, of
Speaker:course, it's going to affect, like, how I respond, how I talk,
Speaker:all those things. So I always like to check in with myself and
Speaker:say, like, okay, might it be smarter to wait a little bit to
Speaker:send this sucker? Do you want to wait till you get a good night's
Speaker:rest? Right? Don't just make this impulsive response. Don't
Speaker:just make this impulsive decision, like, stop before you
Speaker:start and get yourself in trouble. You know what I mean?
Speaker:So that's number one. So number two, we want to, like, just
Speaker:like, pause and reflect before we take action. And some of the
Speaker:things we want to consider, like, what's really the point of
Speaker:this thing? Like, what's the purpose of this thing? What's my
Speaker:goal in my objective, with this communication, with this
Speaker:whatever I'm about to do this action I'm about to take,
Speaker:like, think about like, what do you really Excuse me? What do
Speaker:you really want to have happen? What's the goal? What's the
Speaker:objective? We don't control the outcome 90 whatever, percent of
Speaker:the time, but what we put into it, how we start a thing is
Speaker:sometimes, how we.
Speaker:An end of things. So, like, if we're going to start it, we want
Speaker:to be doing it from a place that actually reflects, you know, the
Speaker:thing we're going for, like, it is, is the outcome that I want,
Speaker:is this thing I'm about to think, say and do? Is it in
Speaker:alignment with with that potential outcome? And we also
Speaker:have to be thinking about the potential consequences of not
Speaker:stopping, like, just starting. Do you know what I mean? Because
Speaker:a lot of times, like,
Speaker:a lot of times, especially again, when we go back to the
Speaker:speed of information thing, you know, you get a message, and you
Speaker:don't even think, like, especially with, like, boxer or
Speaker:something like that, can be a little more stream of
Speaker:consciousness, you know, like, when you can just hit record and
Speaker:you can talk out loud for 15 minutes uninterrupted, and the
Speaker:person on the receiving end right has to just like, listen
Speaker:to you go on and on and on and on and on. Now, I personally
Speaker:don't mind getting longer messages, especially if they're
Speaker:telling me good stories or there's good points, or that
Speaker:we're playing catch up, or we're brainstorming that. I don't mind
Speaker:that. But there are times when people just, like, run their
Speaker:mouse without thinking, right? There's no it's like, put a
Speaker:comma in your commentary, right? Just put a comma in your
Speaker:commentary and pause for a moment. Okay, because we want to
Speaker:be talking about, like, the consequences that. But have you
Speaker:thought about the goal, the outcome, what you're really
Speaker:trying to accomplish. And have you thought about the potential
Speaker:consequences of what your attitude, your tone of voice,
Speaker:the words you're choosing, what you're about to say back right?
Speaker:Did you stop before you started? And did you think about it? How
Speaker:is this going to land for them? You know, we can't control how
Speaker:other people respond, but we can control when we send it, how we
Speaker:send it, what words we choose, what we do, right with those
Speaker:thoughts, those words and those actions. And here's just another
Speaker:final one. I'm going to wrap this up, because this is the
Speaker:thing. So I find that I don't know if it's just you, I don't
Speaker:know if you have this experience too. Double A men hands, I try
Speaker:to be a really thoughtful communicator. So when I go to
Speaker:send somebody an email, especially if I'm trying to
Speaker:communicate important things to them, like, for example, in the
Speaker:nest, right? So my my spiritual mentoring group, program and
Speaker:community. So we have calls every other week. And so when I
Speaker:send out the like, the time, I'm like, All right, I need them to
Speaker:know first of all, the call is coming up this week. This is
Speaker:what day it is, this is what time it is, this is what how
Speaker:long it is like. This is where it's happening. Here's the Zoom
Speaker:link, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, here's what they're going
Speaker:to need for the call. Try to show up on whatever I think of
Speaker:all the information that I'm trying to communicate. And I
Speaker:always say to myself, How can I make this almost foolproof? How
Speaker:can I make this so that there will be no follow up questions?
Speaker:How can I do work up front that's going to save me work on
Speaker:the back end, because I was a shitty communicator. So here are
Speaker:some of the tricks and tools that I use, and I'm going to
Speaker:tell you what they are first, then I'm going to talk a little
Speaker:bit about it. And so just sit tight about the buckle up. Okay,
Speaker:so when I'm sending an email, there's a couple of things that
Speaker:I do. Number one, if I'm usually sharing a lot of different
Speaker:information, like a place, a time or whatever, a link, I
Speaker:number them. I literally make it so their brain has to go number
Speaker:one, okay, here's the date and the time. Number two, here's how
Speaker:long the thing is, or whatever it is, here's the location. This
Speaker:is where the studio is. Like, I literally try to think of
Speaker:everything. This is what you're gonna need to bring. Number
Speaker:three, you know what I mean? I try to really, really simplify
Speaker:it.
Speaker:I often will use bold in my emails because people don't pay
Speaker:attention. Most people's minds are moving so fast. This is the
Speaker:generation right of like, TLDR, too long didn't read, which to
Speaker:me, is just like, I don't think I've ever written that in my
Speaker:life, except to reference it about somebody else or something
Speaker:else. I'm like, No, I will read everything like I read the
Speaker:things. No, why? Because I'm a reader. I'm a reader and a
Speaker:writer. I love words so like, I will read it. So many people
Speaker:skim, so many people read fast. Don't really read. They half ass
Speaker:read. They don't pay attention, whatever. So I already know, I
Speaker:already know what the internet, social media, just people's
Speaker:nervous systems, how everybody's kind of amped up, stressed out,
Speaker:anxious, whatever. And so I'm, like, all right, I'm gonna try
Speaker:to make this as clear as possible, make it so that they
Speaker:can't, like, miss it. I'm.
Speaker:I will number things. I will write things in bold.
Speaker:I will create space so as a writer, writer right? As
Speaker:somebody who's writing a memoir, I write in full paragraphs,
Speaker:right when, when we read books, not all books, because
Speaker:children's books, hello, or books that are writing in a
Speaker:slightly different thing, poetry, whatever. But people who
Speaker:write like usually novels, self help books, memoirs, prose, we
Speaker:write in actual full paragraphs, our brains are used to reading
Speaker:sentence after sentence after sentence after sentence after
Speaker:sentence after sentence. Break new paragraphs, sentence after
Speaker:sentence after set. I know that most people, they'll be like,
Speaker:yeah, too long. Didn't read or like, remember me? So I'm like,
Speaker:okay, so what I do is I break things up.
Speaker:You will notice, if you get a newsletter or an email from me,
Speaker:I tend to write in like, one sentence chunks, because it
Speaker:creates a lot of white space, and it helps people's eyes and
Speaker:brains to, like, take it in. And there's no way. There's just
Speaker:like, oh yeah, I can just read that. When you give people
Speaker:chunks of copy, it seems these days like they just can't handle
Speaker:it right, and they won't read it. So I have these little
Speaker:workarounds. And I stop before I go to send an email, I stop and
Speaker:I say, okay, how can I clearly, concisely, whatever, communicate
Speaker:this to the best of my ability, make it so everything they need
Speaker:is in this thing, right?
Speaker:You would be amazed. Now, it's one thing when I'm delivering
Speaker:information, sometimes people might have a follow up question
Speaker:about, like, hey, like, like, just very things that are unique
Speaker:to them, right? Like, hey, I need to leave a little early, or
Speaker:is this okay if I do this? Like, I'm not talking about that. I'm
Speaker:talking like, deliver the information. What makes me
Speaker:mental. What makes me insane? Just little side by side by
Speaker:here. Here's what makes me mental when I'm trying to get
Speaker:information from somebody, when I'm trying to find out when a
Speaker:thing is, how long it is, what's going on, where's the thing? How
Speaker:do we do whatever? When I'm trying to extract information
Speaker:and get something answers from somebody, I write to them in the
Speaker:same exact way. I will bold it. I will sometimes use yellow
Speaker:highlighter. Here are my three questions, and I will number
Speaker:them
Speaker:when I tell you the amount of times that people either say
Speaker:they're going to get back to me by a certain day and they don't,
Speaker:and then they never get back to me. Like, maybe it's like,
Speaker:whatever you have to, like, prompt them, prompt them, prompt
Speaker:them, and I get it. People are busy. Like, I get it, but either
Speaker:they don't respond, or if they do respond, they'll only answer
Speaker:like, one question. I'm like, um, what about these other two?
Speaker:Because now I'm gonna have to do a follow up email because you
Speaker:didn't slow down and read what I'm asking you. Now, I'm totally
Speaker:fine if they say to me, Hey, all of these questions are answered
Speaker:on the Q amp a page on my website, here's the link. Or if
Speaker:they even just say, go to my website, you'll find it blah,
Speaker:blah, blah. I'm like, great, as long as I have access to it. But
Speaker:most people do not stop before they start to respond and see
Speaker:what this person is really asking of them.
Speaker:People do not pause, they do not breathe, they do not think, and
Speaker:they do not be.
Speaker:And my thing is, like, I encourage people. I was just
Speaker:talking to somebody on the phone about this the other day, I
Speaker:encourage people try to put yourself in another person's
Speaker:shoes. Try to put yourself on the receiving end of this thing.
Speaker:Try to imagine what it's like to be the other person. And if we
Speaker:could do that, not only would we be better communicators if we
Speaker:stopped before we started, but we would literally have a
Speaker:different experience in the world. I wish that so many
Speaker:people in the world would stop and try to put themselves in
Speaker:other people's shoes, because I think if we did that, and we
Speaker:actually gave a shit, and we actually can, I know a lot of us
Speaker:do, but half the countries doesn't seem to right. You know
Speaker:what I'm talking about, we would be a lot more compassionate if
Speaker:we stop thinking about just me and mine and mine and ours, and
Speaker:how my experience and what I want from my kids, my family, my
Speaker:thing my religion, my people, my what we would.
Speaker:Have a totally different experience, if people would just
Speaker:stop, pause, breathe, be think about these things. What do I
Speaker:really want? How do I want the other person to feel? This is
Speaker:the other thing, right that we have to ask ourselves. It's
Speaker:like, okay, how do I want them to feel? To be on the receiving
Speaker:end of this. What do I want them to know?
Speaker:How do I want them to feel? What action, if any, do I want them
Speaker:to take?
Speaker:If more of us did this, if more of us communicated intentionally
Speaker:and again, we can use, I just use the example of sarcasm,
Speaker:because that's easy. It's an automatic it's an automatic
Speaker:thing. I don't have to think about being sarcastic. I don't
Speaker:have to think about it like my brain. I'm already my fingers
Speaker:could just start typing before I even have, like, noticed, like
Speaker:the smart ass thing that's about to come out of my mouth, right?
Speaker:But I try to train my brain. I try to train my mind, right, of
Speaker:course, in miracles, says an untrained mind, right? An
Speaker:untrained mind can accomplish nothing.
Speaker:And I don't want like, you know, in yoga, I think it was in the
Speaker:Bhagavad Gita, but Swami Kripalu says it too.
Speaker:It talks about, like, the consequences of being yourself.
Speaker:And when I think of that, in this case, I'm talking about the
Speaker:consequences of you being your ego personality, not the true
Speaker:self who you really are, the eternal, loving, kind,
Speaker:compassionate, happy, healthy, healed, whole, holy self. I'm
Speaker:not talking about that capital S self. I'm talking about this
Speaker:little ego, personality, self that we tend to identify with,
Speaker:this body, where we grew up, our money, our people, our family,
Speaker:our accents, our whatever, like all of this is who I am. This is
Speaker:who I am.
Speaker:You're more than just who you are and how you were raised. You
Speaker:know what I'm saying? There's more to you than that, and
Speaker:that's the thing that we want to really stop before you start
Speaker:just running down your patent Avenue, like right, your ways of
Speaker:being that you've always done. We have an opportunity to renew,
Speaker:to remake right when we talk about this concept, and I don't
Speaker:mean it religiously, but this opportunity to be reborn, to
Speaker:have a clean slate. Like, in every moment we tend to think
Speaker:about it, like on our birthdays, like, oh yeah, new personal New
Speaker:New Year. And then, like, whether it's the Gregorian
Speaker:calendar new year in January or the Chinese New Year, whatever
Speaker:it's like, oh yeah, clean slate, New Year. You could have a New
Speaker:Year, New You in any moment when you decide to cut the shit and
Speaker:stop before you start. And of course, we can apply this to
Speaker:stop before you start being lazy and break your word to yourself
Speaker:and not get off your ass and go for that walk stop before you
Speaker:start drinking, before you pick that shit up, before you start
Speaker:light up that smoke, before you shove that Twinkie ho ho, you
Speaker:know, Susie Q, cupcake thing in your mouth stop before you
Speaker:start.
Speaker:And if you don't know how to stop, there's lots of tools out
Speaker:there for doing that, right?
Speaker:Lots of tools, lots of coaches. Meant, I'm raising my hand
Speaker:Hello, mentors, people out there that can help you, that can help
Speaker:you to make different choices. My brother, my sister, choose
Speaker:again. Choose differently that is available to you at any time,
Speaker:not if you don't stop first, not if you're not aware first, you
Speaker:got to slow down, to go fast. You know what I'm saying? So I
Speaker:think I'm going to end it there. I hope this was helpful in some
Speaker:ways, just something that was on my mind. I went for a walk run
Speaker:earlier and and I was thinking about the show. And then again,
Speaker:the text, but this is my spiritual team, stotj. They're
Speaker:always helping me out with like show,
Speaker:you know, show ideas and stuff like that. So I hope this was
Speaker:helpful in some way for you. And I super duper appreciate you if
Speaker:you're still here, listen to the sound of my voice. Thank you for
Speaker:being here. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day. And
Speaker:like I said, if you ever want to work with me, I'm wicked easy to
Speaker:find. You know, Karen kenney.com, just spell my last
Speaker:name, right? K, e, n, n, e, y, and then you're there. It's
Speaker:easy, right? Lots of ways to see what I'm up to, what I'm
Speaker:offering, what's going on.
Speaker:And, yeah, that's it. I got all kinds of stuff going on behind
Speaker:the scenes. I've been doing a lot of writing trying to get the
Speaker:first draft of this memoir finally done. I might be
Speaker:offering some writing salons, some writing, little mini
Speaker:writing, like, we could call them workshops, but it's more
Speaker:like, yeah, like salons, like we get together for like, two hours
Speaker:and we write online. I might do some in person here in New
Speaker:Hampshire, but I might. I'm also going to be offering them
Speaker:online. So if you're a writer, or somebody who wants to write,
Speaker:and you want to write in community
Speaker:and etcetera, I'll be telling you more about that as well.
Speaker:Okay, thank you so much for being here. I'm sending you lots
Speaker:of love.
Speaker:Uh, wherever you go. May you leave the animals, may you leave
Speaker:the people, the environment, the planet, and yourself better than
Speaker:how you first found it wherever you go. May you and your love,
Speaker:your presence, your energy, you know, your spirit, your heart,
Speaker:like who you are. May it be a blessing. Bye. Hey, thanks so
Speaker:much for listening to the show. I really love spending some time
Speaker:together. Now, if you dig the show or know someone that could
Speaker:benefit from this episode, please share it with them and
Speaker:help me to spread the good word and the love. And if you want to
Speaker:be in the know about all of my upcoming shenanigans, head on
Speaker:over to Karen kenney.com/sign,
Speaker:up and join my list. It'll be wicked fun to stay in touch.
Speaker:Bye. You.
