Ep.90 She Found Her Way Through Fitness - Goodbye Restrictive Diets & Hello to Balance

As a seasoned veteran in the battle with restrictive diets and excessive exercise, I was thrilled to sit across from midlife coach Kristin Jackson, an example of balance in the health and wellness arena. Our heartfelt conversation peels back the layers of her transition from a personal trainer, once bound by the shackles of extreme fitness regimens, to a champion of the holistic FASTer Way program. Kristin's story of navigating the rough seas of perimenopause, a late-in-life pregnancy, and body changes make for an identifiable tale of a woman steering through midlife. Kristin found her way to nutrition that celebrates whole foods, champions gut health, and embraces the ebb and flow of individual needs.

The journey through the FASTer Way program is akin to unearthing a treasure trove of health secrets that have reshaped not only my life but countless others seeking sustainable wellness. We discuss the transformative power of macro nutrition, intermittent fasting, and getting your body moving. But this episode is about more than just food and fitness; it’s about breaking free from the chains of an all-or-nothing mindset and finding joy in life's simple indulgences. We unpack the reasons that drove Kristin to coach, fueled by her personal health wins and the profound reward in guiding others to feel better in their own skin.

In the company of the FASTer Way's dedicated professionals, from the visionary CEO to the spirited pro trainers, we explore the strength of a community united by the pursuit of transformative health. Kristin shares inspiring client stories, from individuals reclaiming their vitality to those just wanting to feel good in "the dress".

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Transcript

Michele Folan: 0:08

Health, wellness, fitness relationships and everything in between. We're removing the taboo from what really matters in midlife. I'm your host, michelle Fohlen, and this is Asking for a Friend. So you've tried keto, low carb, low fat, maybe Atkins, or maybe something even more restrictive like a 1200 calorie per day diet on top of lots of cardio? Hey, we know, none of this is a long term strategy or even healthy in this stage of life. What about a tried and true program that supports the changing needs of midlife women, with coaching, sensible, effective workouts and a macro focused nutrition approach? That is what Kristen Jackson did, and she loved the system so much that she became a coach to encourage women to adopt a healthy lifestyle, rather than drastic measures that are not sustainable. Welcome to Asking for a Friend, Kristin Jackson.

Michele Folan: 1:17

Hello, thank you so much for having me. Kristen, it's really nice to see you again. We connected and I just thought this would just be a perfect topic, particularly at the beginning of the year, when a lot of us are kind of reassessing kind of our lifestyle and wanting to be healthier, and you have done much of the same. And before we get started, I would love for you to just tell the audience a little bit about where you're from and your family details and that sort of stuff Of course.

Kristin Jackson: 1:51

I live in beautiful Arizona and in the Valley area and I have seven kiddos combined with my husband we just got. I just got remarried a couple or three years ago and so I have four daughters of my own and I have three bonus kids. So super busy midlife business woman trying to feel good right.

Michele Folan: 2:19

Absolutely for sure, and you're a midlife woman like I am you started realizing some body changes. At what point did you decide that you wanted to get a handle on things?

Kristin Jackson: 2:34

Just a real quick background. I am a former personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and so I have done all the things and I've taught all the things and done all the drastic. You know, even down to you had said 1200 calories. I did the HCG diet, where you literally are eating 500 calories and I don't even remember the foods that we ate. And I told my family at that point that after the third time I said if I ever decide to do this again, you need to hold me down because it was such a mindset problem for me and it completely unhealthy, right? Anyways, I had a midlife surprise baby at four and I say that because there's nine years span between my next, my next oldest and I came off of the pregnancy hormonal roller coaster, got back to probably pretty close and then, boom, hit perimenopause and I didn't even realize it. Right, you just kind of stop, Wait go ahead.

Kristin Jackson: 3:38

How old were you? You had this. I was 40, 40 years old and I had. So, yes, there's some women that have God bless them, have them later.

Kristin Jackson: 3:47

But 40 years old and my fourth daughter, as I said, and I then was going through a quick divorce and I was very, very thin after I had my daughter because there was things going through, but you know, during the pregnancy and then after that, trying to pick up my four girls, trying to pick up myself, after being knocked down to nothing emotionally and I can wait, and for you, and I did meet now my now husband, a couple of years later, but it was the oh, this is fun, we go out to eat. He loved to go out to eat, we'd go out to eat, We'd travel, do all these things, didn't have time for myself. Plus, I had a very demanding job at that point. So, anyways, I just decided it was, it was time, because I started feeling very sick.

Kristin Jackson: 4:39

I started feeling I had no energy and I was so incredibly achy. My joints, my muscles, I had no. I swore I had no muscles left in my body and I think a lot of that was the emotional, emotional things I had to go through. But then I didn't take time for myself whatsoever. It was grabbing, whatever it was. There's no way I have time to work out anymore. Right, I learned I knew the eat more or eat less and work out more, and I'm like I'm not gonna do that anymore. If that's what I have to do, then forget it.

Michele Folan: 5:14

Yeah, so do you think some of the achiness and joint issues and that sort of thing was that inflammation from your diet at?

Kristin Jackson: 5:23

that time, absolutely when we get inflammation. We all have some form of you know amount of inflammation in our body. But when we are constantly eating processed food, when we are doing those low calorie, low deficit deprivation diets, over exercising or under eating and under exercising, that is all wreaking havoc on our body Plus, of course, food that we eat, we have a lot of problem in our gut. It definitely was inflammation, and I know you're gonna ask me this how do you know for sure? Because when well, when I found the faster way, okay and I know you want to segue into that basically within one week of making some all changes, I barely had any achiness whatsoever.

Michele Folan: 6:15

Oh, okay, and we'll get into more details of the faster way, but had you done any other programs prior to this other than some of the, you know, calorie deficit type of things? What like? What turned you on to?

Kristin Jackson: 6:31

faster way. Well, I had done. Ww was the last thing I did and I had the last night. I was thinking about this and I'm like, oh my gosh, I did NutriSystem too, did NutriSystem, and that was the. I was working 14 hours a day. I'm just want something to pop. In the end was it real food to me?

Kristin Jackson: 6:52

With WW, I found myself leading into more processed foods because it was like, oh, I can grab this, it's two points, it's three points, it's four points. That's what I focused on frozen meals, all of that, it wasn't the whole food. Nutrition and with my background, I should know that nutrition is, you know, they say 80%, I almost say 90% of you know your whole thing and nutrition going back to how it used to be with the whole foods but then having the workout. So when I wanted something where I knew I could do have workouts and I didn't have to think about doing my own program or doing random things, getting random results and then having the nutrition on point, I used to go and teach group fitness at 530. I would get up and go teach cardio at 530 in the morning, go to 711, get my diet soda and a thing in that are butters as a reward Like hello. Does that even make sense?

Michele Folan: 7:49

I know, but you know, first of all we have to be kind to ourselves, because your story is probably not too unlike a lot of people listening, where we've tried all the stuff. You know, we've tried NutriSystem, we've tried Jenny Craig, we've done Keto Akins I mentioned all those in the intro and we get to a point where, okay, nothing is working. I still feel like crap. And cardio, cardio, cardio isn't working either, and you found faster way. I don't even know how you found faster way. Was it through social media?

Kristin Jackson: 8:28

Yep social media, because of course it's a digital nutrition and fitness program. I found a coach, which I didn't even know was a coach, and it was someone in her 50s and said what if I told you that you did not have to spend hours in the gym doing cardio and you can lose weight and lose fat in midlife? And I'm like my ears perked up right, because I said that in the beginning. I'm like I don't want to be doing, I don't do not want to be killing myself. I knew that I wasn't strong enough, my body wasn't strong enough to do that, and so I just started implementing just a few things. I'm like, okay, I'm going to start walking, I'm going to start getting movement in. And then I did that. I started doing strength training just three times a week and in three weeks I could see body comp changes. I didn't count calories, I didn't do anything, I just started making those changes.

Michele Folan: 9:22

And then did you sign up as a client then.

Kristin Jackson: 9:25

I did. I went on my honeymoon and I came back and said, okay, I'm got a fine setting. And I still, like I said I didn't know what that was. Well, I stumbled on someone that lived in Maui and I just got back from Maui and I'm like, what do you have to say? And she was a FasterWay coach. And so I literally signed up the next day, didn't tell my husband because I'm like, oh, here I go again doing something, and just then, a couple of days later, said, so I started this new program. Yes, so that's, that's how I found it.

Michele Folan: 9:56

And I'm curious I didn't think about this at first but some of the diet and lifestyle changes that you've made with FasterWay has he also adopted some of those things along the way?

Kristin Jackson: 10:14

He has been off and on, but right now he's really kicked it in gear. He does want to go as drastic as I do, because, of course, I just love this oh, it's my passion but he is making those changes, getting more movement in. He is a very active, not athletic person, but on his feet all day long. And what have you working on? The inflammation and all of that. And it's a mindset thing, right, you have to get your mindset and say, okay, something's got to change, or something's got to change yeah.

Michele Folan: 10:46

Right, well, and in all transparency, I, too, have gone through the Faster Way program and I did that in 2023 and I'm still doing it, but I would love for you to really share how you got started and really what you think the nuts and bolts are, why it is effective and why it's worked for you.

Kristin Jackson: 11:11

Okay, Like I said, I didn't even know a whole lot about it before I signed up. Okay, I just said, like you know what, I've tried everything else, let's just try this. And I mentioned mindset. I think a huge part of this whole program and what I do with my clients is really working on your mindset, because that's when it starts. And I was that all or nothing mindset girl. I was either all the heck in or all the way out.

Kristin Jackson: 11:41

And when you are focusing on your health right, health is a long journey, long life journey. It's not an all or nothing thing, it's an all or something is what I say. And I needed to find something that was sustainable. And this was sustainable for me because you are starting and building healthy habits Eating your water yes, half your weight in ounces of water every single day. I used to drink diet soda basically in my veins. Ah, it has water in there. What a huge difference it made, even in week one, week two, just drinking my allotted water.

Kristin Jackson: 12:18

And I had to work up to it, learning about intermittent fasting and the health benefits of it. At first I was like absolutely not, I am not going to miss meals, I'm not going to not eat. I've been doing that for years. I've been hangry for 10, 15, 20 years because I've been under eating.

Kristin Jackson: 12:34

So the things that I love the most about this program is, yes, the coaching, because how many of us have tried everything and guess what? If you're looking for something else, why are you? Because it didn't work. It's not sustainable and you need someone to help teach you and guide you through the process and be there for you when you start slipping away. So you have that coaching and accountability, the community of like-minded women or men with you on this journey. A lot of women don't know that they need that support until they have it, and I have women that are like I have friends again. But on that same journey they tried the science-backed, clinically tested strategies that we use, like the intermittent fasting, the macro, as you mentioned in the beginning. Macros was absolutely a game changer for me because that is where I got my energy, that is where I wasn't hungry anymore and I'm building muscle and burning fat at the same time.

Michele Folan: 13:37

And also one aspect of it, too, is changing up your macro allotment per what kind of physical exertion you're going to have that day. So if you are doing something maybe a little more high intensity or really strenuous leg day, you would adjust your macros accordingly. You're really creating a nutritional balance throughout the day so that you don't get hungry, which I think is genius actually.

Kristin Jackson: 14:09

Right? I mean, think about it. How many times we've done these diets and you are, you're just hungry or you're like I don't know what I can eat and so this doesn't fall in. It's got carbs in it, so I'm just not going to eat. I did that thousands of times.

Kristin Jackson: 14:25

Right, With macros. Yes, we want to have the most nutrients ingredients, nutrient dense ingredients that we can. But if you have something that's going to fit in your macros and it might have dairy in it, it might have whatever in it, but it fits in there. You just eat it. It's going to be okay in the grand scheme of things.

Kristin Jackson: 14:44

But my goal is for my clients is not to have to track macros forever. We're going to have times where we're busy, where we're like you know we can lax a little bit, right. But if we have our bodies conditioned for that and you can eat the foods that you love, right. And I always tell my clients I want you to think of things that you are adding to your life, not what you're taking away. You are adding a treat on Saturday after your leg day because, guess what, Everybody needs a brownie once in a while, or a plate of nachos or whatever it is you choose to have right.

Kristin Jackson: 15:16

They're so and I'm throwing all these things in here and it's a lot, but this program is really all strategically set to be sustainable for you and, yes, we're not a one size fits all situation. So I sit there with my clients and find out what their pain points are. Where do you feel that you are going to have those struggles? Right, and how can we fit all of these things, or some of these things, into your life so you can do it? Yeah.

Michele Folan: 15:45

Yeah, I think the whole thing about deprivation scares people and it can make people really shy away from doing a program like faster way. So what do you think of the Press? Do we get ahead of it? Yeah, this is crazy. It's not like that at all and that's what was appealing to me that there is science-based nutrition. It's really about nutritionally dense food and getting plenty of fiber which is huge and healthy fats. I never feel deprived and I still look at my plate sometimes and I'm eating just as much as my husband is some nights and I don't feel guilty about that. Anyway, I love that and I'm kind of curious at what point did you decide that you wanted to be a coach?

Kristin Jackson: 16:37

Two and a half weeks in, Not kidding, and of course it's because of my back story in the nutrition field. But, like I said, with that inflammation, my energy and all of that had changed so much by that end of week one, week two, and my coach had mentioned something on her Instagram story. And I love my job and if you would ever want to do something like this, I make an impact. I didn't even know you could be a coach, you know, and so by week about three and a half, maybe week four I started studying and I had signed up to be a coach. So not long, because I am like that.

Kristin Jackson: 17:17

They are on to something and not just, I mean, it's the strategies, but it is the whole company in itself, Our pro trainers. They have a love and passion and I have met our CEO, I have met our trainers. I have met everyone in person, the corporate office, they all. Of course it's a business, but they all have a passion on changing lives, on helping people combat disease right and be the best version of themselves. And that's what I always say I want you women and yes, I mainly I only work with women but I want you to be your happy, healthy as self and this faster way program is not.

Kristin Jackson: 17:59

A lot of them are just most of them do not have nutrition and fitness. It's either one or the other right, but it's not just do this. Here you go. It is do this because of this, Like my clients and we all, all our coaches, kind of have our own twist on how we, how we share everything with our clients, but it is knowledge, and knowledge is power, so you do, you will walk away with education. It is all. This is what you should be eating. This is why, just like you said, the fiber. Why is fiber important? Why are healthy fats really so important? How many of you did the low fat diets right and you hungry?

Kristin Jackson: 18:40

And do you know that if we don't have enough fat, we are not able to absorb all these micronutrients and macronutrients in the amount that we need it right? So, again, you walk away with all this education. So if you you do the first six weeks of this foundation that you're building and you think I can do it on my own, you're still going to walk away with a ton of information and knowledge.

Michele Folan: 19:07

You brought up the low fat thing and it just got me thinking about remember snack well cookies, heck yeah, the chocolate puffy fat. Yeah, and they were healthy. I'm doing air quotes, but yeah, it just, it just made me laugh. I was thinking oh yeah, low fat, those snack wells, all right, people go through the six week program. And then what? How do you keep people engaged after those first six weeks?

Kristin Jackson: 19:32

Right. So I, I move you into a VIP group that is, with like minded women again that have gone through this, that have been living this from anywhere couple weeks if they've just finished a group, or four or five years. I get clients sometime that have left fast, faster way and have found me and have joined my group or have done a, you know, switch coaches, whatever, and I continue to work on different things at different times. Right now we are really working on mindset. All December was mindset. Who's ready for a mindset reset? Right, it's again going back to the basics, not the all or nothing how to build healthy habits, how to stick to habits, how to make them attainable. I do trainings, possibly every month, every other month on different things. I ask them what they want to learn about. I did one last month about muscle and why muscle is so absolutely important. So every day they are getting a post in their group, which, of course, it's all digital so you can get in there on your own time. And deeper dives, articles, books to read, engagement will do challenges.

Kristin Jackson: 20:38

We did Plank November, plank Skipping, and then some didn't get to do it and I was sick. So my clients called me out and said, okay, I wasn't able to do it, so let's do it in December. So by the end of the month you can do a three minute plank, you know, and we do things with prizes and things like that. But I have an amazing group of VIP women and they are engaged. Every single day. They will say, okay, workout done, and I fasted today. Or look at what I ate. Or what about these ingredients? Does this look good? They are interacting with each other and I'm very active in there every single day, several times as well. So it is just so wonderful and it was so great. We just came off at Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's and they're all in there expressing how incredibly grateful they are for all the women in there, for my coaching, for our community of support, and when one's doing really good, they're pulling everyone in there. So it's really wonderful.

Michele Folan: 21:37

Your excitement is palpable and I love that, kristin. That's neat that you live and breathe this for your clients. What has the impact been on you to see some of the success that your clients have realized? Okay, I have goosebumps, right now.

Kristin Jackson: 21:57

Oh gosh, I hope I don't start crying, I am, I'm truly passionate about this. There are so many things and first I wanna talk about like my own family. I have my sisters finally joined my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law is like girl, I'm gonna be doing this till I'm 85 and she's 63 and building muscle and loving it. And their husbands are starting to. They'll be like don't say anything but so and so has been secretly fasting or whatever. So I am seeing that come in my family. My two daughters in their 20s are joining my January 8th group because they're like mom, how do you have all this energy? I'm sitting over here yawning and working on my computer and you're on your treadmill and you're talking and I'm talking to a Marco Polo with them. But when you do something like this and you feel good, everybody starts seeing it and noticing it and they want it.

Kristin Jackson: 22:51

And with my clients I have one client.

Kristin Jackson: 22:53

She was my first client to sign up and she actually was someone that I knew in a little town in North Dakota in elementary school and she said I wanna know what you've been doing and I wanna join your group. And she was my very first coaching group and she one day said I just have to share this and I know she won't mind me sharing this, but she said I take baths all the time and she said I had today. I just stood up and got out and got my towel and walked around and said, oh my gosh, I did not have to maneuver up, slip on, get on my knees, pull up, stand up and get out. And I literally read that and I just cried my eyes out because that is what it's all about. That is what it's all about. We all wanna feel good in our swimsuit and a pair of jeans and a dress and there's nothing wrong with that. But when you find these life things that you know is going to help you is amazing, and I have so many stories like that.

Michele Folan: 23:53

Yeah, kristin, everyone's gonna get so tired of hearing me say this, so I'll try not to say this too often. My why is not necessarily about looking good in the dress for the next event or whatever that is. I wanna be able to get up off the floor when I'm 86. Heck yeah. And so those are long-term goals, but it makes doing this every day a lot more attainable, because I'm doing this for a goal that is hopefully going to sustain me through my later years.

Kristin Jackson: 24:34

I love that you brought that up. I love it. Love it because when I talk about my why's or clients' why's, and I said I want you to tell me what your why is at this point, right, and you start out and you're thinking and maybe it is, maybe you know, people say my son's getting married in July, maybe that's it. But then when you start seeing these changes, even emotionally but physically, and you're feeling so much better, your why starts changing, right. So my sister-in-law the one I shared about earlier she had said that she had done keto for three years. She had lost 25 pounds. Right, she felt, thought, she felt great. But she said I felt better now After a week, week and a half of this. Then I did In that situation I can't understand it, because you're eating healthy. And she even was like what is this maple syrup they keep putting in the meal plan? It's maple syrup. You know, when you're on keto, like you don't eat that, right? So it's just funny. But I just had to interject that. But also not only with all of this other stuff. You get food freedom, right. You get food freedom. You are able to have these things that you worn off for who knows what diet you've done in the past. But and now you know it was even three months, since she was Christian. They are just really onto something and I can't explain.

Kristin Jackson: 25:54

She said you know, they had big goals and they are going to live on a sailboat in the Bahamas and she is 63, getting ready to retire. And she said I need these muscles to be able to pull the ropes, to be able to get in and out of the boat. And you know, bring the groceries in and do all that, she said. And she's a nurse, she's a hospice nurse, so she sees a lot. You know people at the end of their life and sickness and how it just breaks these families apart. And she said we need muscle. We need muscle, we need health, we need, all you know, our cholesterol down. We need all of this for our future selves. And that's exactly it. And so the wise end up changing for sure.

Michele Folan: 26:38

So that is a great way to keep people engaged. Do you? Do you ever have people that get really discouraged and then you're afraid they're going to give up?

Kristin Jackson: 26:49

Oh yeah, of course it's natural right, because we get in times in our week where we might have a crazy week and we're like there's no way I'm going to be able to do what I want to do for myself all week. So in that aspect, I'm always I am always telling them you want a one on one. I have a calendar right in the group they can click that. I will tell you and we will sit there and figure out a plan for your week, right, even even if it's just emotionally, I need a mindset reset, okay, I also and you know, again, going back to the community, you know I had a long-term client that got a new job moved and there was one other big life thing and she's like I just can't get back on track. She goes you know, I've done a few workouts this week and I'm trying to drink my water, but that's all I've done and everyone started jumping in. You've got your water in, you got three workouts in, right? So that community again. And yeah, and you have that, talk about your why think about day one? And you know you feel better.

Kristin Jackson: 27:53

I have a client that moved to me from a different coach. You know, sometimes you start out with someone and you think that you know that's who you need to be with. And it's a very personal situation. I don't I do not like to steal clients whatsoever and I don't. But you have to connect right. You have to connect and feel you have that support. It's a personal situation and a couple of times she's like I'm done. And then I look in the mirror and say why do you keep doing this to yourself? And now she's an ambassador for me. She's still going through, she still has her struggles, but she's like and she's posting on Facebook like this is what the faster way has done for me, this is what my coach has done for me. And I'm still on this journey and I'm not where I want to be, but I know this is where I need to be.

Michele Folan: 28:37

You know, when people maybe get lax or they step back, maybe they quit doing it for three months, six months, whatever. When they come back to anything and this can be anything in life you're not starting over from square one, you're starting with experience. So anybody that took time off because of life issues or you know my God, things are thrown at us all the time, but when you do come back to it, it should be okay. I know what I was supposed to do now. I just have to get started, and sometimes that's the hardest part. So if somebody is interested in getting into faster way and maybe having Kristen Jackson be their coach, how do they get started?

Kristin Jackson: 29:25

You do not need anything to get started other than your initial why, and then you take bold action and I will help you, link arms with you and tell you everything you need to know and I know there's a lot of information out there. But when you start eating whole food nutrition, you pair the workouts, you start putting things in place. It all makes sense and I've had all my clients say it just makes sense. What you would need to do is reach out to me. I have a brochure. I will go on a one on one discovery call with you, I will go through some more details with you and then you just need to sign up and take that bold action.

Michele Folan: 30:10

I went to encourage people listening. I went to the doctor back in the fall and I got all my biometrics done and from the time that I had joined Faster Way to that day I had seen improved lipids. My inflammatory markers had gone down and my doctor said I don't know what you're doing, but just keep doing it, amen.

Kristin Jackson: 30:43

That is wonderful.

Michele Folan: 30:45

Yeah, and looking on the outside, you may not see a huge change if you look at me, but my doctor certainly noticed. And again, it's about that long-term goal that you have.

Kristin Jackson: 30:58

Exactly, real quick. And another big component of this is we're talking about the health, right, you're talking about the health and it's those markers, it's your strength, it's your endurance, it's your energy and I always lived for the longest time with the number on the scale, right, we talked about that. I just want to bring this up real quick because that is a big component is being aware of your body, being aware of the changes and not being married to that scale. When I found the Faster Way, I was and I'm going to get the haters I did a real once that said I was a size 12 to 14 and people are like what's wrong with that? I didn't say there was anything wrong with that. It's where, how I felt in my skin, right, but I was between a 12 and 14 and right now I'm between. You know how sizes go two, four, six, depending on where you shop.

Kristin Jackson: 31:49

I still, to this day, have only lost seven pounds. Seven pounds and my body has completely changed and again, not where, a hundred percent, I wish I could be, and I'm still have big goals for this next year. I want to build a lot of muscle, but seven pounds with the big difference that I made. So it is all about the whole picture, your whole health, your mindset, how you're feeling, how your markers are and, yes, the body composition. But being married to that number on the scale you say I need to lose 50 pounds, you might only have to lose 15. You never know, right To look.

Kristin Jackson: 32:24

But getting that confidence back, I went on vacation again. I'm like I had been sick, for I had COVID. I got really sick for six weeks or so and I couldn't work out. I was under eating. I kind of. Right now I still kind of feel a little flumpy. But I went to St Thomas and I walked along the beach with my husband and I felt more confident than I had in years and that's a huge component. You want to get your body back, get your confidence back.

Michele Folan: 32:55

I love that, and I have had to kind of walk away from the scale. Yeah, because I didn't see huge numbers change, but I noticed my clothes were fitting differently and that's really more my barometer than anything. So I think that's a great point and I'm glad I'm really glad you brought that up. About the scale, I have one question for you what is one of your personal pillars of self care? What's something that you try to do every day for yourself?

Kristin Jackson: 33:22

I have been thinking about this. So and this might sound cliche with what we are talking about, but honestly, from where I've been in my life, journey me trying to eat, stick to whole foods because I know it serves my body well and I feel good, that's my self care. Okay, I'm not. I don't have a million skin care things. I do like a good bath two to three times a week. Maybe that's my own time, but I really feel that eating the whole foods is really my self care. I don't know, sorry.

Michele Folan: 34:01

That's all I've got for you.

Kristin Jackson: 34:02

No that's perfect and moving my body, but that's two.

Michele Folan: 34:05

Yeah, hey, listen, it doesn't have to be sexy, right? It can be practical too.

Kristin Jackson: 34:09

Okay, there you go.

Michele Folan: 34:10

Yeah, hey Kristen. How can people find you?

Kristin Jackson: 34:15

Okay, I am on Instagram at at KristenKiris tin Jackson. Underscore 2021. I am also on Facebook at Kristen Marie Jackson, so just follow me on my stories. Go ahead and follow me. I like to give a lot of insight on you know day in the life of how to live this positive energy, all of those good things in there as well.

Michele Folan: 34:43

Perfect, Kristen. Thank you so much. I'll put that in the show notes and I appreciate you being here today.

Kristin Jackson: 34:48

Thank you so much for the opportunity. Don't think, just do.

Michele Folan: 35:00

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