Girls Gotta Eat - How to Be Present and Feel More Alive feat. Mimi Bouchard

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

We're kicking off this episode with thoughts on dry January, some life updates from Ashley, Rayna's feelings about starting her tour, and then we're laughing about the hilarious "describe your ex as a store" trend and sharing our own. Then we have an interview re-release with Mimi Bouchard, founder of the Activations app, to discuss the most effortless way you can start to manifest what you want in life. She shares her story of transforming her life and what led her to start the app (hint: no meditation required), and we discuss things that numb you vs. things that make you feel alive, how to act like your future self even in the smallest moments, reducing your screen time, and our personal favorite, manifesting during sex. Follow Mimi on Instagram @mimibouchard and download Activations. Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for more. Thank you to our partners this week: Activations: For a limited time, get a 14-day trial + a great discount on your subscription at activations.com/gge. Shopify: Go to https://shopify.com/gge and start building your own empire today. Chime: Bank fee free by signing up at https://chime.com/girlsgottaeat. Skims: Shop our favorite bras and underwear at https://skims.com. Hungry Root: Get 40% off your first box and free item in every box for life at https://hungryroot.com/gge with code GGE. Nutrafol: Get $10 off your first order and free shipping at https://nutrafol.com with code GGE10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the best things you can do this year to feel more alive and more present. And when you're feeling alive, you remember to bounce back so much more. Everything is going way better in your life when you're feeling alive. This podcast is a Dear Media production. Hi guys. Hi guys. Welcome back to another episode of Girls Gotta Eat. Welcome back.

I have a question for you. Yeah. Have you heard of anyone doing dry January? I'm glad that you asked. So I went on the road to do a couple of shows. This week, like with Britney shows, I went to Portland and Seattle, and I opened both shows asking, is anybody... Oh, you did? Is anybody still doing their resolutions?

Okay. And a lot of people yelled out, I'm doing dry January and I'm done with it. And that was decided, that was January 7th and 8th. They'd already given it up? Yeah. Is it still doing their resolutions? I will say, though, I think we're hearing about it less because I think people drink less. They are just drinking less.

Yeah. I think we all got to be drinking more. The state of the world, who cannot drink? Like, we need to drink to get through this shit. So I think people are like, fuck. no, I'm not giving up alcohol. The world is on fire. That's all I have. We had a friend come over to watch football, our friend's fiance. And he was like, I'm trying to do dry January, so I'm just going to have some beers. He is so he loves, he's a beer drinker. But it's so funny.

Like, I, when I was in my heaviest drinking phase, I would like sober up with beer. I always sober up with beer. It's insane. Like end of the night, oh, I'll switch to beer. I need to sober up. That's insane. That's how I always did it. It was just so I like also like, so I wouldn't get hung over in between venues. Like if I would go from one bar to the next, I'd drink a beer in between. So I didn't get like hung over before I started drinking liquor again. Yeah. I do think people are just drinking less.

And so I don't hear about it as much. Or more. I'm saying. I just think it's like, whatever we're doing, we're not stopping. Fuck no. Yeah. Okay. A couple other things, Rain, I cannot believe you have not said anything about my phone case.

My lack of the phone case. I have been raw dog for days. Okay, because I don't notice it because you have that thing on the back of it. So I just, when it's over, it looks like it has a case. What are you doing? Okay. So Shishonk, my current husband, he has been raw dog since we met. I saw it yesterday.

I noticed it yesterday. No case. I honestly, it made me uncomfortable just looking at it. When you meet somebody with no case, like this has been our whole relationship. Like I'm like, I don't know if you're like me. I feel like it's like meeting someone who like does CrossFit. Like you're like, I don't, you're stronger than me. I don't know if we're the same type of person.

Well, it's only one of two things. You're either richer than me or you're dumber than me. I mean, the phones are stronger than they used to be. They don't crack like they used to be. But he, the other night we were going out, he was, I had taken it off for something and he was like, don't you like it? It feels nice. It feels nice. It's sleek. It's so much lighter.

It's so much easier to put in a little purse. But I just don't feel comfortable. And I was like, I'll try it for the night out. I loved it so much. I was like, and this is an older phone. So I'm going to get a new one anyway. And then I was like, you know what I want? I still want my octobody.

And I want a little bit of grip. So I found a magnetic one. So this is a mag safe octobuddy. So now I'm case free with an octobuddy. This is the new me. I don't support it. I support a lot of things that you do. But I also, you're rich enough to buy a new phone if you need to.

You could afford it. Okay, one more thing, one more thing. Update up. Now I'm turning into you because look what I just got. You're going to be so proud. I literally feel like you. Look at my jewelry organizer. Ashley, you finally got a jewelry organizer.

This is the one I have. It's perfect. We'll put it on this screen. I mean, it's perfect. Oh, okay. You walked around and you're like, it looks like you a jewelry store in here. I like having organized jewelry. Yeah, I wasn't like hanging my shit.

So now I got my necklaces and bracelets and my rings and stuff. So I feel like I have gone a little rogue in one area of my life, my phone, but I tighten it up in the jewelry department. Yes. Yes. I mean, when I walk in, I turned my bedroom into a closet. So when I walk into the closet room, because I don't have, I don't have kids. I could do whatever I want. You know, don't have kids.

turn a second bedroom into a closet. And I have all my jewelry like on stands and stuff. It's nice. I feel like I'm responsible adult. Yeah. What I had going on before was just, it was in a bunch of trays and little dishes and weird stuff. I don't know what you were doing out here.

Don't worry about it. I don't want to talk about it. I'm embarrassed. Okay, let's like our partners. A lot of updates about your life. Okay. So thank you to Shopify. Go to Shopify.com.

To start building your own empire today. And Chime Bank fee free by signing up at Chime dot com slash girls got to eat and skims shop our favorite brides and underwear at skims.com. And thank you to HungryRoot. Get 40% off your first box and a free item in every box for life at HungryRoot.com slash GGE with code GGEE and Nutraful. Get $10 off your first order and free shipping at Nutraful.com with code GGE 10. And Activations for a limited time, get a 14 day trial and a great discount on your subscription at Activations.com GGE. Okay, my tour starts in 10 days. I am nervous. I'm excited. I just, I can't wait. And I just,

I want to thank you guys for the amount of tickets you bought without seeing me do one stand-up set. I have not posted one thing. And I mean, that's a lot of trust. The people are like, I know she's going to take this seriously and take our time and our money seriously. And I've worked really hard. So we just love it. Tampa, we're launching on January 29th. Ashley will be with me. And Miami, February 1st. It's a 4 p.m. show. Miami not the matinee like a boozy brunch show we have more friends coming to that show than I have any other show on the tour until Miami at 4 p.m. people are just waking up. I know come have breakfast. They might not have gone to sleep yet. Come at breakfast. Yeah exactly. It's a breakfast

show. It's a brunch show. There isn't a brunch culture in Miami because people don't get up. People are not awake. So come have brunch at the Miami improv. It's going to be great. It's Raineygrie.com and I am going to run the whole hour in New York before the tour starts. So that'll be January 28th at the stand in New York City on East 16th Street. Andrew Collin is going to open for me and Oscar Aden who went on your tour with you. And I'm just really excited. Those tickets are cheap. So if you want to come see me on the cheap, I'll see you in New York City on January 28th.

And I just, I can't wait. So, yay. 10 days. I cannot wait. This is all I have to live for. So excited. No, I'm really so excited. Every time you say you're hosting the show, it makes me laugh.

It makes me lack. So I'm really excited. I mean, I've said this before. I'm so excited to come and not work and not have to panic and be anxious. Welcome to my life. Exactly. So in Tampa, we have some friends who were longtime old friends of mine from Atlanta. And they live in Naples.

And they made the trip to come to Tampa when I was there last year. And then you met them in L.A. They came to L.A. And they are like making a whole night of it. Like they are staying overnight. They're missing their kids basketball game. Like they just had so much fun at my show. and they love meeting you.

And so they're so excited to come. And I'm like, I'm going to sit with you guys and drink. Like I am so excited. Like those four days, I cannot wait to kick it off in Tampa, host, rain a show, kick the tour off.

And then go right into this bachelor at party. And then the Miami matinee on Sunday. And then we're going to dinner afterwards. Like, I am so excited for these four days. And I don't have to do this thing in the back of my head that like, no offense, that I have to,

that I have to do. I mean, we all get anxious or nervous on some level. And it's for me, it's like I can't ever fully relax and enjoy myself if I know I have a show that night or the next day. I've been in this like constant cycle. I'm congratulation. I'm happy for you. This is how I've been living. It's really nice. I'll be honest. I have this constant cycle of like before I got on stage in Portland last week. I had like written all this new material and I was like, why am I doing this? This is crazy. This is ridiculous.

Like you're not good enough for this. You're not going to memorize 10 new minutes and stuff before you get on stage. You're supposed to talk for 22 minutes. Like you can't remember this. I got on stage. It was amazing. I had a great time. The audience was really fun. I love, we did Portland and Seattle. I love those audiences. I had a great time in both those cities. But my self-talk before I get on that stage is like, what are you doing? You are not good enough for this. You're going to forget stuff. No one's going to laugh at you. Everyone's going to laugh at you, but not the way that you want them to. And then I got on the stage and I have to like remind myself that roller coaster is like not real. Like once I step on the stage, like I will feel fine.

Yeah, I told you this. I don't, I don't know why I do this to myself. Like I stand up for 12 years. And like if I hadn't been on stage for a while and I was going to go out to do even just a random set, not even a show on a tour. Like the thoughts in my head. I'm like, Ashley, what is your problem? You've never once like gotten on stage and I mean, we've all bombed on some level. But you've never gotten up there and like embarrassed yourself or forgot your jokes. Like what are you scared of? Like the self-talk is crazy.

And then you're driving home and you're like, oh my God, what is wrong with me? Why can't I seem to correct this before it starts? And it's like, is it in your body or is it in your brain? And you're trying to figure it out. obviously the more you do what the less is and like, you know, towards the end of my tour, I was like, I can do this in my sleep. I'm not feeling that type of nerves. But we all just have that and it's sometimes hard to enjoy yourself. And like last year when I was in Miami on my tour, it was like all the girls. I just wanted to like have drinks with them and stuff. And I'm like,

I have to go work and like be a clown for them. I know. Like you're the entertainment. Yes. You can't get all fucked up. Yeah. I just, I don't know. I hope that people just like realize that like imposter syndrome comes to everybody. And I like the message. You and I have done hundreds and hundreds. I mean, you have done thousands of stand-up shows and you still feel like that. Like I've never gone on stage and have people be me to me or boot me off stage. Like the feelings are not anchored in anything real.

But I'm still like, are people going to like this? Is this going to be funny? And even if they don't, who cares? I'm not performing brain surgery. But you do have to do some if it works for you. Like when I really started to feel like that when I toured in 2022, I literally wrote affirmations. affirmation like literally in my phone like you're the baddest bitch on the planet everyone's here to see you you sold out however many tickets thousands of tickets like you know you like you have to shift

it i don't think it's helpful to have those thoughts and step right on stage like even if you think you're kind of lying to yourself you got to be like you're a bad bitch you did this i did that yeah you're about to go crush it because you will yeah i'm excited to get in front of you guys anyway i don't need to like give you it's just like no i need it yeah i had to and i had to remind myself like you feel like this every time you're walking on stage and you feel great every time you walk off stage. And I've been performing for strangers, not for you guys. Like, it's going to be even better in front of you guys. Totally. Yeah. You guys don't care if I fall in my face for you to love me anyways. I'm not. I actually, it's really good material. And then if you

want to come see me in LA this week, the last show before the improv is at Bar Lubech. It'll be on Wednesday the 21st. So you guys can come see me this week. I'm doing 30 minutes. So that's it. Okay. Yeah.com. Okay. So we have some new vibes only products. We're just going to run through these. If you guys don't know, we have a sexual wellness company. We'll see. sell sex toys and lube and accoutrement for the bedroom and accessories and really just we're so proud of everything. Everything's the highest quality. The packaging is really incredible too. And we have redesigned the Bond Band. So this is my favorite couples toy we sell and it's one of my favorite products in our entire collection. And this is an adjustable cock ring, cock tie. If you're watching on

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We have really designed this to be high-end luxury, really beautiful. Yes. And so it's one size fits all. The Richard is an incredible toy. Again, it's our bestseller. I love it. But I mean, if you're huge, if you're Matt Khalil that we talked about on the snack last week, if you're two Coke cans.

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navy blue. You can pair it with any of our toys. And it's just a fun little accoutrement to include in your purchase. Yeah, it's really fun. It's like a golf towel style. It has the little carabiner on the top. You can hook it. And it's moisture wicking. So if you need to, you know, lay it under you or whatever you want. Well, yeah, it's great for cleanup and for period sex. Okay, so those are the two new vibes only products. You guys check them out and have your spiciest Valentine's Day by someone else yet. Yeah, we're going to restock a couple things next week for the Valentine's Day drop. But obviously, if you order now, it'll come by Valentine's Day. So vibes only.com. Thanks for your support. And we hope you guys love it. Okay, so I saw this meme that was so funny to me and I shared it with you. And the first slide of the carousel said, describe your ex as a store.

We want to laugh. And I scrolled through and I'll read some of them. People are really delivered. So funny. So there's all these like tweets or whatever people submitted or where they found. They found them on the internet. So Victoria's secret because Victoria was a secret. H&M, him and his mom.

Shee N, he lied about the size. Apple because he updates but never changes. I saw one that said Pepsi because he had a problem with Coke. Pepsi because he had a problem with Coke. Rolex because he rolled back to his ex. Netflix because I share him with four other girls and I'm the only one paying. That had levels to it. Costco because everyone got a sample.

7-11 opened to everyone 24-7. Microsoft, Micro and Soft. Skittles, he wanted to taste the rainbow. T-Moo because his quality was shit, in and out. Starbucks because he screamed the wrong. name, Uber because everyone got a ride, Forever 21, because he never goes up. And then my favorite one, do a lingo because I never learned my lesson. People are so creative on the internet. This was so fun. So we did some of our own. And I mean, they're about all my exes. I don't want to,

I just want to be clear. This isn't like one X that I'm going in on him. I picked like bad qualities of everybody, everyone's ever dated. I didn't tie them to anybody. And I will say I couldn't really shit on people's sexual abilities. Because I've had. some pretty good dick in my life. I don't think I've had like mind-blowingly bad sex, at least in recent memory. So I couldn't rag on people's sexual ability, just their personalities. And that's it, their personalities. Okay. Do you want to ping pong some back and forth? Well, I started with my least favorite ones, but I'll build to the best ones. Make a Wish Foundation. That's the joke. I'm the prize. Okay. J.C. Pennies, because that's all he had. The dollar store, because he was cheap.

GameStop because he played too much. IKEA missing pieces of himself and somehow I'm the one that has to deal with it. Maybe my favorite one. Okay. Waymo because he was never in the driver's seat. They're so good. Should we make this whole episode? Okay.

Radio Shack irrelevant or refuses to die. Is that still around? Yeah. I thought I wanted a Radio Shack one and I couldn't think of it. It's still around. It refuses to die. Okay. Well, on that note,

posh mark because i don't want this anymore poshmark someone come and get this poshmark someone can pick this boyfriend out someone else's problem but this is someone else's house Facebook marketplace can you come pick this up you don't have to go home but you got to get up out of here okay spirit Halloween shows up once a year and then ghost

you quick because I got ghost in there that's okay that might be my favorite damn it spirit Halloween store why were you something different yesterday why have you changed your whole personality. Why are you totally? Yes. So funny. Okay. Peloton. Everyone got a ride. That was strong. No, I like it. My last one, party city, because you know all the party city so much. Party City, you can't keep opening and closing. Like, are we together? Make a decision. Okay. This one is pretty niche. And it does got to describe my ex. Wendy's, because why are you so unhinged on social media?

Please stop tweeting. I hope he never stops. Oh my gosh. That was so fun. That was so fun. God, I love this. Okay. So let us know, you guys. Please leave a YouTube comment or a Spotify comment, wherever you guys like to be and let us know yours. I could read these all day. Yeah, these are amazing. Okay. I love that you found these. Great job. So today we have an interview with Mimi Bouchard. This episode originally launched last year, the very beginning of 2025. And it performed really well. Activation saw a great response. And so we are collaborating with them again to release the interview. Yeah, we're really excited to re-release this for you guys. We know so many people found this inspiring. It's a great start to the year. What do you want to manifest?

What do you want to create for your year type of episode? Yeah, there are some great tips for manifesting and getting an app and using the app that way. I really love the stuff about screen time. That's always a goal of mine. And something she said were really impactful for the way to frame how you're thinking about your screen time and reduce it. That's a goal of mine this year.

always. So we hope you guys can take some of the tips and tricks and implement them into your own like 2026 planning and goal setting. And if you are curious about Activations, Mimi's app, you can check it out through the special link in the show notes where she offers a 14 day free trial for Girls Got to Eat Listeners plus a really great discount. So check the show notes or head to activations.com slash gGE to learn more. We are just going to talk about our partners. And then we will get into the interview for you guys. Okay. Shopify. I mean, this is where Ashley and I run Vibes Only. Our girls got to eat store. We have been fans for years. And if this is sort of your year to start a new business, this is what's going to help you start now. So if you're reflecting and thinking,

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See Chime.com for details and applicable terms. Okay, let's get into it. All right, guys, we are very excited to welcome our guest today. She is an entrepreneurial trailblazer and the founder of a new type of audio. Activations, a top-rated motivational audio app, which has amassed tens of thousands of subscribers in just two years designed to fit seamlessly into daily life. Activations are functional audios designed to help subscribers, make them most of moments every day to live the life. They have always imagined. What a great way to start

the year. Please welcome to the show, Mimi Bouchard. Thank you so much for having me. Hi. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. So I was just listening to your app last night. How did you like it? I love it. I mean, I just love that it's the way it's categorized and it's like whatever you need in that moment. There you are. Did you feel energetically different after listening? I did like a more of a relaxing one. I was doing it at night. So I was like, I wanted to get all gas up.

She needs less energy at night. See, I'm like the, I love the motivational ones. Like I, we created the nighttime ones just because people wanted them. But like most of the app are these like motivational,

like energy changing ones that I was actually listening to in the car before coming. And they just got me so, they get me so amped up for life. Yeah. It's like a natural high. Well, who doesn't need like a pep talk? Like everyone needs it.

At any time of day, you know. So just a reminder to be who you want to be. I love it. Well, so we were conceptualizing this episode with you and so much of your story is so inspirational and so much what you talk about is about just like being a better you in the new year and like not spending a ton of money to do that and really relying on your own self. So this is a perfect episode to like start the year and let's like meet you, get to know you and your story. Because your story, you were just saying to us, I'm a totally different person than I was eight years ago. Yes, well, let's unpack it. I've transformed my life in every way, shape, or form in the past eight years. And I feel like when I share this, it's honestly just a way for me to express to people that it doesn't need to be that hard. And of course it took effort, but I feel like once I realized that it was all about my self image and how I saw myself, then the change started happening faster and faster. So about eight years ago, I was just to paint. a picture. It didn't feel good on me, but I was 20 pounds heavier. I was very unhappy. I was depressed, anxious. I had a binge and purge eating disorder. I had $8 in my bank account. I was partying a lot every weekend, doing drugs, living paycheck to paycheck, really not the version of myself that I wanted to be, obviously. I was numbing every day. I felt like life was just happening to me. I didn't

feel responsibility for the life I could create. I had huge self-image issues. I was incredibly insecure. I was one of those people that just looked in the mirror and always just found faults. And I just wasn't happy. I was, I was very depressed. And then I found personal development and really started diving into all of this work. And this is back almost a decade ago when personal development wasn't cool. Like the books that I was reading were these books that were like with old white guys on the cover with their thumbs up, like read this success principle book or something, you know? Like the self-help section of the bookstore where it's like embarrassing to be there or something,

you know. Now it's cool. Now it's cool. But before I started getting into it when it wasn't cool and I just became obsessed because I felt I was at this time in my life where I hated how I felt. I hated how I looked. I hated this relationship I had with myself. I hated what I was producing in the world.

I knew I wanted to create something of my own one day, like for a business. I knew I wanted to have success. Money was always very important to me because I grew up in a household without a lot of money. Both of my parents are artists and we grew up struggling a lot. There were bankruptcies in the family. My parents had to remortgage the house very often to survive. And it just, there was this lack there, constant lack. And reading personal development books, honestly, at that time was so life-changing for me

because it gave me these new beliefs and it gave me hope that I could actually create life that I wanted. And some of these beliefs that I had learned were take 100% responsibility for your life. You know, you're an average of the five people that you surround yourself with most. Rejection is redirection. Um, you know, no means next. Like, keep going. You can create it. I'm going to love all these. Yes. I'm like, can you write this down? Basically, so I just, I became obsessed. I started consuming as much content as I could, uh, about personal development. And I started transforming my life. And the first few years of this transformation happened slowly.

You know, I would slowly start, you know, drinking less. I would slowly start doing my morning routine in the morning. And then I'd fall off track and I didn't have a quick bounce back rate, which is something I talk about. And I just would kind of, I would try and fall back off the bandwagon and then try again. And I was seeing these very, very small steps forward, essentially. And then there was this moment, a few years in, where I was trying to, to meditate and I couldn't concentrate on it. I just felt like it wasn't doing anything and meditation

was one of those things that I kept trying to do because everyone in the books were like, you need to meditate and you need to visualize because visualization is so important for you to reach your goals and for you to think about who you want to be. But I just couldn't stick to it. I felt this resistance and I felt like I needed something to invigorate me, to energize me, to give me this like intense, beautiful like excitement towards the future that I'm creating. And I just felt like it was not meditation that was going to do that because meditation is all about calming you, relaxing you, clearing your mind. I wanted something to like get me ramped up and to go like achieve. So intuitively, I stopped meditating and I started recording these audio

memos on my phone, on like the voice memos app on my phone. And I just started to describe the future that I was creating. I was like, this is what it feels like to have millions of dollars my bank account. This is what it feels like to have this home that I love, this relationship that I love. I was, you know, 21 at the time and still had never had a boyfriend and I felt really insecure and like I wouldn't find this love. And, you know, I was describing all these things that I wanted, how I wanted to look. I wanted to effortlessly be in this body that I love without thinking about food a lot, intuitive eating, without having this binge, like eating disorder, without having food consume my mind all the day. I wanted to live this life of my quote,

your self. And this little did I know is the first activation. I started creating loads of them. I would record them on a professional microphone and add music from YouTube behind them because music is such a big part of activations. Like we use very cinematic movie moment, epic music that just makes you feel alive. And when I started doing these activations, my transformation went from like zero to 100. It was insane. Within a few years, I started earning an incredible amount of money. met my now fiancee, literally the day after I described him on activation. Oh my God. What? And now, and every single year, the transformations just double, double. Like, it's like this compound effect, it's this bell curve. It's like, the more I do it, the more I live it, and the more I live it,

the more I create it. And I could get emotional, like honestly, thinking about how my life has just changed so much. It's been such a blessing. I genuinely just feel so good every day. And looking back, like I didn't think that that was possible for me and I did it. And it's just, it's been the biggest blessing of my life. I'm the happiest I've ever been. Wow. Congratulations.

That is so beautiful. No, really. I mean, you overcame everything that you mentioned, like those things, I've never had a relationship. I had an eating disorder. I was doing drugs too much and drinking.

And by the way, you were 21 years old. Who didn't have every one of those issues? Exactly. I know. Drug issues, alcohol. I mean,

I was so bloated. I was always on drugs. Yeah. A lot of us don't get out of it. And I needed to get out of it. out of it because I was going down a bad path. Yeah, and it affects your mental health. That was what was like making me feel bad the next day, you know, and you just, all those things like compounding. You can't like achieve what you want to achieve. I couldn't. Well, I'll tell you why. It's because

alcohol numbs you. Yeah. And I have this theory that if you do the things that numb you, you are directly less alive. So you're either feeling numb or alive. And things that numb you, it's things like overeating, over drinking, doing drugs, being on technology too much mindless scrolling, distracting yourself. And then the things that make you feel alive are things that slow down time. Numnness quickens time. You're wasting your life. You're going to blink and your life is done if you do numbing activities all day long. Feeling alive is like these activations specifically make me feel alive. Like having a beautiful, deep conversation with someone makes you feel alive. Like that feeling after a workout, being present, being in the moment makes you feel alive.

I like the mental exercise that you talk about of like imagine your future self and who is she surrounded by? What does she wear? How much money does she have? Where does she live? And I think it's sort of like picking a goal and working our way towards it because we talk every year at the beginning of the year about like why is it hard to lose weight and you know these goals that are not like measurable and achievable and they're just, it feels so like I don't know, it's just this like floating goal. But I think you're really like do this mental exercise of like who do you see in three years and like let's go be her. Well, saying it out loud, I've said that before on the podcast.

It's so important and people just feel silly sometimes and you double down on saying it out loud. You know, like this is what you did to achieve what you have. But I've always said that. Like stuff has like come to me that I've just said out loud, you know? And I feel like I've talked about this a lot. Manifested my fiance and saying it out loud on this podcast, saying it out loud to myself.

Like it's always worked for me. Like little things too. I don't need to get into all of them, but just I'm like, I was alone in my home and I, like, said that thing out loud. And it came true. Yeah. If you're creating your dream life, I'll do anything that looks stupid if it means I'm going to be wealthy and happy and abundant and joyful every day.

Absolutely. And I think that you can make every decision based on that. You can say, okay, what I want in three years is X. And so would the person that's going to get those things make these decisions? Would they eat this food? Would they take this trip? Would they make these business decisions? And I think that's a really good way.

Like people say manifest, I think it can sound a little bit like, what does that mean? But to me, it's like you pick a goal and every day say to yourself, is the person that goal, do what I'm doing today. And I just love the rejection of the traditional meditation. I think that's going to speak to a lot of people because I never thought of it the way you said it. I'm like, this is not what I want. I need to be amped up. I don't need to be in stillness about to fall asleep.

Like meditation is great if you want to calm down. But it's not going to help you reach these like huge goals that you have, really. Like you need something that just changes your energy because when that energy inside of you changes, everything else changes. Your self-image changes. Your thoughts change. Your beliefs change. Everything in your life changes when you change how you feel. And that's the trick.

Like it actually, once you know that version of you that you want to be, once you have clarity on that future self, all you need to do is become them in everyday moments. And the more you do that, the more you'll naturally take the actions that that future. yourself version of you takes, the more you naturally embody this energy, the more you'll start seeing opportunity everywhere that was always there, you just didn't see it. Because the reticular activating system, the RAS in your brain, wasn't triggered in that way. Because that RAS is basically a filtration system in your brain that decides what you consciously notice. And it is triggered by your beliefs and your thoughts and your self-image. So let's just say you're the type of person that says to themselves, oh, I'm not lucky. I'm, you know, bad things always

happen to me. I'm a victim. Like, yes, if that is what you're telling yourself, that's your truth. You're right. You're 100% right because you're only going to ever find reasons to confirm that belief. But if, on the contrary, you say to yourself, I am 100% responsible for my life, I am empowered, I know I'm moving in the right direction, I believe that with this work, with changing my energy. I am creating this life. I am becoming my future self. Your RAS is filtered in a different way. And you're going to start seeing reasons why everywhere. You're going to start seeing opportunities. It genuinely changes everything in your life when you do this. I love that. I mean, that was kind of the lucky girl. Yeah. On TikTok, lucky girl syndrome. Yes. It's just like people talked about obviously

TikTok in a lighter way, but obviously this is the reasoning behind it. And just yeah, of course, if you're thinking like only good things happen to me. I'm so lucky. You're going to find reasons to prove that all throughout your day. It's so true. And, you know, I'm just such a believer in what you deeply believe is actually the truth in your life. Like if you believe the world works in a certain way where things are really hard and you're just, this is how life works and it's just not the kind of life you can create for yourself. Like, that is exactly the life that you're going to live. That's the reality you'll live in. You just, you create your own lens. I have a close family member that always she always says like everything bad always happens to me if you can go poorly it always does and

the same amount of bad things have happened to her as your average person it's just the lens through which she chooses to see things I I find it very interesting I want to like back up to you being 21 because we've like some young listeners and you were like I thought about like who I was surrounded by so like it's not hard for me in my like late 30 is just around myself of people who want like a little little bit of a slower lifestyle do less drugs drink less go go home earlier but when you're in your 20s that's like pretty tough. So like did you have to take an inventory of like who was in your life and like cut people out? Oh gosh, massively.

I cut out so many people. I actually realized that I'd rather be alone than with people that were not aligned with where I was going. And I had to be quite cutthroat about it. I didn't do it in this dramatic way where it's like, you're not my friend anymore. I just like phased out these people. And I noticed direct changes from doing that. I also realized that there were people in my life that like just couldn't see. see a big vision. And I wanted a big life back then. I was living the small life, but I wanted

a bigger life. I wanted to have my own business and make millions and have, you know, just this really special relationship. I wanted to have just like the above average human experience. Okay. And unfortunately, the people that I was surrounded by back then felt threatened, I think, from that. Like I remember there was this one girl. I overheard her actually. She didn't know I was in the next room. And she was a good friend of me. mine at the time. But when I kind of started sharing that I wanted to move to London and create my first business, which was an online magazine, and I wanted to be an entrepreneur and leave school and just, you know, go do something different. I remember overhearing her talk to another friend of

ours. They were like shit talking me and they didn't know I was behind the next door so I could hear everything they were saying. And they were laughing at me and they were saying, oh my God, she's so pathetic. She's going to go start a blog or an online magazine. They were like mimicking me and like laughing at me. And I just remember then I was like, all right, this is part of my story. I'm going to go make success. And these girls, you know, obviously wish them well, but there were definitely moments in my journey that I was just like, yeah, this is like, I'm definitely living a better life. And I wonder what they're doing now. I know. I know. I hate to say that because I'm like, I'm now, like I actually truly wish them well. But there were times in my journey

where I was like, no, I know. I know. There were definitely times in my journey where I was like, ha. Like, you know, but anyway. No. There's always going to be people to laugh at you. And I think it's like kind of funny looking back at it because I was a food blogger. And it led me out of this tech job I really hated. It led me to meet Ashley and have this podcast. And everybody was like you're taking pictures of your food. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But I've noticed this is the thing. The people that are going to judge you and say rude things about what you do. It's like they're not happy. I've never seen a happy person ever say something like that. So you just have to realize that. Like those people are. are just unhappy and they probably deep down have jealousy because they want to do something different and outside of the box. They just don't have the courage. Every hater you see on the internet. They're, they're all telling on themselves. Like, you know, tell us you hate yourself without telling us. And I think it's good to have people like that want a big life that have big dreams and people you look up to. And those are the people you talk to if you want advice on

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to completely turn your life around. I'm going to read them too. And then I want to unpack some of them. Okay. Great takeaways that you had. Great. So the first thing was doing a life audit, which you talked about, you know, who am I, who's around me, adopt a quick bounce back rate. So the bounce back

rate is this term that I developed. And essentially, it's just the rate at which you bounce back into being your future self, the person that you want to be. So for example, if you, if your future self is very healthy and cares about vitality and for some reason, you go out and eat like a fast food meal one night, like that's okay. But it's just how quickly you get back to being your future self. and it's not, oh, I've ruined it now, I have to wait until Monday. So your bounce back rate is essentially like the measure of how successful you'll be because perfection is completely like not attainable. No matter who you are, whether you're a supermodel and, you know, you have millions in the bag.

No, these people that we see in magazines have never once had one completely perfect day where they wake up at 5 a.m. They don't procrastinate. They eat organic all day. They, you know, like do their perfect skincare routine. Like no one ever has a perfect day. We're human. So perfection is not.

we should measure success as. It is a quick bounce back rate because what successful people have that not successful people have is a quick bounce back rate. When they do something that veers off of the person that they aspire to be, they just naturally get back on the bandwagon quickly because it's part of their self-image. But someone, for example, that hasn't been able to create success in their business or something and maybe they're procrastinating too much or mindlessly scrolling throughout the day or they're not doing what they know that they need to do, they'll often just wait until they find inspired motivation. But the people that actually do it and achieve that, they'll just naturally do that because it's just who they are. So a bounce back rate is a great

measure. When I first started my journey, I mentioned, had a very long bounce back rate. And now I can bounce back to being who I want to be in seconds. So that's just a tool you can think to yourself at home. It's the beginning of 2025. First, get clarity and do a life audits. it figure out who you want to be, figure out the version of you that you want to be. And then in everyday moments, in these little moments, bounce back to being them, whether that's just a thought spiral you're going down, a rabbit hole, how you're feeling, your energy, how you're thinking, your posture, just how you're embodying yourself, just bounce back to being her in everyday moments. And you'll see, it's such an easy thing. It's just about the speed. I like giving yourself

grace. And if you really read anything about habits, we talked to James Clear about this, who wrote Atomic Habits, which is the greatest, you know, book about habit forming. And he talks a lot about like, it's okay if you decide you're going to work out all the time and lose weight. It's okay if you take a week off. But can you get back into it? And like, that's it. Nobody has this perfect day. And I like that notion of that. A hundred percent. Exactly. Yeah. You can apply it to anything. Like dating. If you're on some sort of journey and you like slip up and you like sleep with your ex, whatever. We're all human. You know, just like get back into it. Like, don't throw it all away because you made one mistake. Maybe it was a mistake. You know, you decide if it was a mistake.

Maybe it was a fun night. You'll get back to being her. But maybe you want that little dopamine rush, your toxicity. And that feels good too sometimes. Okay. So your third thing, act like you are already your future self. Yes. Act as if. Yeah. The best way to be who you want to be is act like them. Exactly. Like you don't need to overcomplicate it. All of this is so simple. It is so easy. you don't need to be in the perfect situation, the perfect time with the perfect mindset to just act like your future self and do all the things I speak about.

You just have to do it in everyday moments. Like when you're in line at the grocery store, if you have a minute, just like don't even say anything. You don't have to think anything either. Just hold yourself like the person you want to be. Pretend you're like the main character in your movie and this main character is creating their dream life. They're transforming.

They're becoming this next level version of themselves. You just have to hold yourself like it. Act as if you're meeting a stranger on the street or if you're at that grocery store and you're at the cash, like speak to the person. Like you are your future self. Have these little moments that are seemingly insignificant. But if you keep doing this, you do them in bigger and bigger ways

and it just ends up becoming who you are. Okay. And rounding it out with reducing. Ashley's going to love this one too. And this is so good for you. Reducing the time that you spend staring at a screen. Oh my gosh. This is game-changing.

And I was speaking earlier in the podcast about numbing versus feeling alive. And those two things are complete opposites to each other. When you're feeling numb, you're not feeling alive. When you're feeling alive, you're not feeling numb. And I have noticed from both personal experience and from just, you know, looking at the world around us and reading certain things about this as well, there is science to prove it. Your brain actually like does this weird thing where it just disassociates. It shuts off when we're mindlessly scrolling. And one of the best things you can do this year to feel more alive and more present.

And when you're feeling alive, you remember to bounce back so much more. Everything is going way better in your life when you're feeling alive. The best thing to do is just to limit your screen time. I saw this kind of scary thing the other day and it was this guy showing, it was like a piece of paper with all these dots on it. And it was like every single dot, he was doing this TED talk. Every single dot is a month of your life. and he showed all the dots filled in for like a typical 18 year old.

And it just shows how many months left we all have. And he said, okay, and then now all of these months are going to be spent you sleeping. And then all of these months are going to be spent you doing errands. And then all these ones are you working, which leaves like just a few rows left of you having free time in the time you have left to live on this earth. And he said, at this rate, 93% of that time will be spent staring at a screen. Oh, my God. Oh my God. Yeah.

I knew you were going to say some shit like that. And it's like it really hits. Yeah. You really just need to, in this sobering way, realize how precious time is. Yeah. And get emotional about it. You know, like if you really want to change your life, you need to get emotional about the fact that we don't have that much time living, our one chance being alive. What is that one chance, that one opportunity that you want to experience in your life?

And if you want to live an existence where you just rinse and repeat the same day that never actually makes you feel that gray, and you're just kind of getting by and waiting and it's like we constantly live in the state of waiting for something, and then you reach the end of your life and you're like, what? Don't end your life with regret, is what I'm saying. And that's why I feel so passionate with personal development work, with the activations I've created. They help you live your future now. They help you be alive and present and live in this beautiful, precious moment as the person you want to be, embodying the feelings and thoughts and emotions as the person you want to be.

It's not this far distant goal in the future, this life that you want. You can live it now while it's happening. You can just embrace this beautiful, precious life right now. And that is what I feel the most emotional, like, talking about because, it's like, what is life if you're not going to do that? Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, you can look at your screen time and you can break it down that way. And when we talked with Scott Galloway, he was like, when I coach men, I take their phone and I'm like, here's the hours and hours you spend doing, God knows what, porn, gambling, whatever it is, you know, social media. Not that those are all created equal, but, you know, like, all the, everything else you could be doing with that time.

And like, you can also, sometimes people have to like forcefully actually delete the apps, not just trust. I do the time limits, which is a slow start. I used to do that and I would every single time just I had this, like it became a habit for my finger just to go, oh, snooze or next or like turn it off. Like, so I was telling you guys off air. I actually spent the past six months, like deleted Instagram and TikTok and everything. And it was the most freeing, beautiful time. Like I genuinely feel like I have never been happier in my life. Can we back up and like talk about.

Why and everything? Yeah, I want to hate this. This is like major like six months off. and like the apps you just weren't on, you know, where you still communicating people. Like I just want to hear about it. You know, I was playing with the thought for a while. I had to combat the random belief that like, oh, with my work and business, I should be online because I have a following on there.

And then I was like, does it actually influence like my revenue for my business? No. Like it doesn't. And does it actually, like, what is it actually doing? I was really thinking, like, what is social media actually doing to better? benefit me. And I couldn't come up with a great reason. Like it doesn't directly influence the revenue for my business. Like everyone that is subscribed to activations by now that follows me, like is subscribed. Like it doesn't really make a huge difference if I do. People are already

like subscribed. And I, you know, I just didn't, I didn't feel like there was a massive benefit when it comes to like my big goals in life right now. And I was always kind of, you know, a weekend here and there, I would turn off, I would delete the app from Friday to Monday. Like I was doing things like that already. But. But then I just realized that there was just no benefit to it. So I played with the thought of just deleting it for a while. And it's been six months. I actually just did a post as an update and then I re-deleted the app.

So I still, I don't have like it's going to be another six months probably. And I have, you know, my assistant can probably do a post for me if I need her to. Or like, I can, you know, I like sharing. And I'm going to revive, I think my podcast like we were talking about before because I think that like audio will never really make you feel numb. That's why I love audio so much. That's why I love listening to podcasts. That's why I love activations. Like audio, you're still present. There's something about staring at a screen where you disassociate. Anyway, so I also had this realization that, so I'm getting married in July and my life, you know, I'm ending this one era of my life right now.

There's, you know, just a bit of time left I have before my wedding. And after the wedding, maybe we'll start a family. And, you know, kind of that era of my life will, will begin. and I just felt, you know what, this is a very important year for me. I want to be as present as possible. I want to be alive as alive as I possibly can. Like, this is a very precious time for me. So I thought, I'm just going to delete it. And I realized as well that, like, I just stopped caring.

Like, my ego just really calmed down as well. Like, there were little things. Like, the past six months, I've done the craziest trips. I've been on yachts. I've been, like, in the coolest places. And I just have had zero craving to, like, post and gloat about it. So I just think that shows just a level of evolution I've had recently. Because obviously we all, you know, social media is where you show off. Like it's hard to be real

on social media. And I just didn't feel like I resonated with it anymore. And I just didn't want to spend my time that way. And it was hard because there were people that I stayed in touch with on there. But then like I realized I, you know, my real friends are going to text me. I don't need to have loads of friends. Like I want to just be a bit more private as well. I've realized. And I think that just being glued to my phone and feeling this pressure to post all the time, it wasn't healthy. And I had withdrawals at first. I literally did. Like I, for weeks, actually, it took probably a whole month for all the cravings to go. It was insane. And I just deleted Instagram. And I actually was never that big scrolling on TikTok, but Instagram was just like, you know, where you could get into this

mindless pit of scrolling for me. And even if it was just for five minutes at a time, like it's not like I was spending all the day. I work. Like, I'm busy. It's not like I was spending all day scrolling. Right. But it was just, I noticed that these like little moments, like even for five minutes before a call or if I, you know, like it was stressed and I just wanted to like numb out for a minute, I would just like scroll or like check something and feel like I was always needed on there. And I noticed that even five minutes of that affects the rest of my entire day. I wasn't as creative. I wasn't as good at doing things. Like the past six months, I have created so many life-changing activations with my team of audio engineers for the app

where I just felt this like connection with something that I really was hard to connect with before. Like the content on the app has improved. My career has improved. Everything has improved. My business has almost doubled in the past six months. Like, thanks you.

I didn't need social media to do that. I think about, people ask us all the time, how do you stay confident? How can I be more confident? When I think about when am I the happiest when I feel confident and what makes me feel the least confident

is comparing myself to other people on the internet. It's the most like, everybody says all the time, you know, comparison is the thief of joy. But it really is. And like I can see something sometimes first thing in the morning. It'll wipe me out for a couple hours.

And over the years, Ashley and I've spent a ton of time talking about this on, on the show, but unfollowing people that make you feel bad about yourself. I moved Instagram to the last screen on my phone, so I kind of broke that muscle memory of going to it on the first screen all the time. And I love, I'm pathologically online. And I love it. I love fashion tips and cooking videos and comedy, but I've muted a lot of words so they just don't come across my desk. And I just don't want to spend my day comparing myself to other people. It doesn't benefit me. It doesn't make me

more creative. It doesn't make me a better person. It certainly doesn't make me a happier person. And even taking it off your phone for like three or four days, it just feels nice. Yeah. Like even just for weekends from Friday to Monday, delete, like, you don't need to go cold turkey like me. Like I'm just a bit more of an extreme person, I think, but I agree with you. Like just limiting it. And I've also realized that so when I re-downloaded it last week to do like a, I just did an update post. It was on my phone for like a few days. And I actually didn't have the craving. Like I maybe looked a few times, but that craving actually went away. Yeah. Yeah. So it was really cool to see that because, you know, you just kind of didn't care anymore. It really is like an addiction. I mean, I say this lightly in the way that like drinking and food can be. Because you're doing something excessively like for trying to get a hit of something. I don't know.

I think it's just as addictive. Yeah. Like I'm scrolling like what am I looking for? What am I hoping to feel? Like what am I wanting to come across, you know? And I'm the same as Raina, you know, and I love to look at comedy and, you know, we need to stay in tune with pop culture and stuff for our podcast and all that stuff. Like it is a necessity and it does benefit our.

business, both of our businesses as well. So, I mean, that goes that same. But it's just like, sometimes I'm scrolling. I'm like, what am I hoping to feel? You know, like, what am I trying to get out of this? And then I like, when I realize that, I put my phone away most of the time. You know, like you're numbing, but yet still trying to get a hit of something, you know, the every way, all of our own reasons for doing it. But it does, it does feel like with excessively eating or drinking or something else, too. Yeah. Can we talk a little bit more about activations? Absolutely. And just like the, the science behind it. And, the ideas behind it and how people can use the app because we've referenced it like a lot but I would

love it to just talk about. Yeah, for sure. Well, activations are a new type of audio that I developed. So it's not meditation. It's activation. It's activation. Motivational guidance and this music that makes you feel so alive. And we actually use a lot of composers. I met with one of our composers yesterday for lunch that do like a lot of movie scores. So that create these like movie moment type of audio is like music that just really tell a story. And as we all know, music has such a influential role in how we feel in our state. Like imagine watching a movie without any background music. Who don't know how to feel? You hear like shoes squeaking on the floor. Like awkwardness. Yeah. You don't know when to be scared. You don't know what to be hopeful. You don't know when to be

happy. You don't know when to be nervous. Like it music really does tell you how to feel. It's like another language almost. So can you imagine using the power of music like, very cinematic movie moment, emotive music that makes you feel like you are transforming, you are evolving. It is changing your state, even just listening to that music. That plus, these visualizations, these like subliminal messages changing how your brain works, that together paired with certain frequencies that our audio engineers layer into a lot of our activations. It is like this audio that is transforming you, whether you are, are listening to it consciously or just in the background. So it is the most powerful tool that I have

ever, ever found when it comes to transformation. It's what's transformed my life. We also have tens and tens of thousands of users that use the app every day. And those people send in their stories all of the time we're hearing these insane transformation stories. We have people from all over the world that are genuinely doing a 180 in every aspect of their life by listening to these. And The crazy thing is, is that I haven't really done that much marketing with the app. Like, it's all been pretty organic, honestly. We've experimented with some paid marketing this year, but like over the past three years, it's been organic.

Everyone's talking about it. Like word of mouth has been the biggest way that we've grown. So that just shows that like it's so good. People are changing. They're talking about it. So anyway, so Activations, it's just an audio app. And it's the only place you can find activations. And we have activations for every moment of the day.

We have over 15 categories from walking to seated if you want a bit more of like a internal reflection moment. We have writing activations with guided prompts. We have cooking ones, cleaning ones, workout ones, legs up wall ones for lymphatic training. I love the legs up the wall. I saw that category last night. I'm like, oh my gosh. I do it like at least once a week. I'm like legs up the wall.

Yeah. So I love that you can put on the activation for that. We literally have an activation for everything. Getting ready in the morning doing your makeup. Like we also have before a date. Before a date. We have like a predate one. We have like literally every scenario you could think of.

There are over 700 activations on the app. There are somewhat something for everyone. And the main thing with activations is that it changes your state. It changes your energy. It helps you rewire your mind so that you become your future self. There are activations on there that will help you understand who your future self is. So many of us were like, okay, we want to improve our lives. So like, what does that actually look like?

I don't know. So I have a two-step formula to transformation. that's number one, clarity, number two, becoming. So first you need to get crystal clear on who your future self is. Really understand her. That's where you want to go to a writing activation, journal about it, write about it, pen to paper. And then the only thing you need to do is become that person, become them in everyday moments.

And the beautiful thing about activations is that you can have it stack them. They don't require you to carve out 20 minutes every morning. And, you know, we're all so busy activations. It's just something that you listen to, just like you listen to a podcast or an audiobook or music. then you have this craving to listen to an activation when you're in that mode to like step into a new energy. And this is how it works so well with transformation. It's like the Pavlov dog theory. We've all heard of the Pavlov dog theory where Pavlov rings a bell. The dog salivates. That's classical conditioning. Activations are classical conditioning for the average person to help you become your future itself.

So when you're pairing these new thoughts and new beliefs and new feelings and emotions with everyday actions, this is when change really happens. So for example, if you're listening to a walking activation, which is my favorite category. That's my after your favorite one. And the getting ready in the morning ones too. I'm a morning activation girl. But anyway, if you're listening to a getting ready activation every morning

when you're doing your makeup or skincare routine, or if you're listening to a walking activation for 10 minutes every morning when you're walking your dog, like soon enough you're not even going to need the activation to feel abundant, unlimited, like confident and just like in love with life. So when you weave these in through your day, and even if you do them like, you know, for two minutes a day or three times a week, like you're just going to start noticing these changes. And the more you do it, the more you feel like you're looking back and it's like, oh my God, so much has changed and it just crept up on me. Like this is what a lot of our users notice.

It's like, okay, they're just playing it. Even in the background, they don't have to consciously even listen to it, but it's just it's programming their subconscious. It's like a subliminal. And within like a week or two, we get these messages of people being like, I didn't even think it was doing anything at first. But then I was like, oh my God, all of this has changed. Like my thoughts are changing. My habits are changing. My patterns are changing.

I'm creating like so much more of what I want in my life. And it's amazing if you want to make more money as well. I think financially like a lot of people that come to our app, they want to create more wealth in their life or they want to be happier. They want to, you know, create a new relationship. But for me, money is always a fun thing to manifest. I think money is the easiest thing for me to manifest. It's just a very fun frequency to tune into because it's like this big, expansive feeling of like abundance and wealth and unlimitedness and a lot of our activations have that undertone to it.

It's like this excitement. It's almost like a natural drug and you're just listening. And with headphones, it's the best experience. And I was actually just listening to one in the car with headphones on the way here. I think it's called embody magnetic manifestation energy. It's like one of our new anytime ones that you can listen to whenever. And I was just like fully feeling this way that I want to live the rest of my life feeling that way. It's like this buzzing throughout my body, this excitedness, this awe for life, this aliveness.

And I just know in that moment that my energy is attracting even more of that. And it's like this snowball effect. Yeah, exactly. So if anyone is listening and they want to try it, I know you guys have a special link to get two weeks free and a discount. But yeah, it's just, it's life-changing. And you guys can try it for two weeks free. And if it doesn't do anything, you can cancel it. And if you forget to cancel, you can get your money back. We have a full money-back guarantee. Like we just want to make it so low effort and so easy for people to try because it's genuinely life-changing. And yeah, I'm just so so excited. And so just so you guys have the details on that again, we said up top, but you can get the 14 days risk-free and you can get a massive discount off your subscription. So go to activations.com. slash gge. So you are going to go to a website to get that discount. So you can see the URL in our episode description. It'll be on our website as well. But that is going to be activations.com slash gge.

The discount is only available through the website, not the app store. Obviously, your app is in the app store. But to get that two weeks free, that's going to be the link. Yeah. Annoyingly, the app store doesn't let us do discounts. We know right now. Yeah, you can just quickly sign up on the website, free trial, and then download the app and use your existing sign and details and take advantage of that two weeks three because in two weeks you can see a difference like that's why we wanted to do a long trial period because we just wanted to prove it like we have nothing to sell here we're just showing people something that they can try and they're going to see it works like we wanted to make it low low risk and low effort yeah and it's a beautifully designed app there's hundreds and hundreds of

activations to choose from i mean there is so much to explore yeah but like easy to navigate it's not overwhelming you know you've got the categories are really really helpful so you're not going to go in there and be like, where do I start? I think you're going to, and you're naturally going to gravitate towards one of the categories. And I just love that you're like, guys, it's not that hard. It's not. It's not. It's not that hard. It's not. It's not that hard. It's change and what do I to do and change my whole life. And it's like, you're over here like, listen, it's just, you don't have to pay attention. It's just going to creep into your brain. No, but that's the thing. I was there. I remember being at my bottom and being like, oh,

this is all so hard. I have so much to do. I'm so far away from where I want to be. And this is the exact thing that I did to get to where I am today. And it, I'm telling you, is the most effortless way to transform. You can transform in a really hard, manual labor way. You can, like, really, really work it. Or you can just take a bit more of a shortcut and change your thoughts and your self-image. This is what Activations does. It changes your self-image. And then when you change your self-image, everything else in your life changes. Because think about, like, an onion. The core of the onion is your self-image and every other layer on top of that. It's like your habits, your thoughts, your, what you do every day. And when you just try to manually change something

without first changing your self-image, it becomes very hard to change. So for example, if you do not have the self-image of a runner, then you're not going to wake up in the morning and go for a run. But if you have a self-image of a runner, then you're going to feel weird in the morning if you don't get up and go on a run. I'm saying this. I don't have a self-image. I'm saying this. I don't identify as a runner. But it's a really easy example. I don't want, like, I'm a Pilates girlie. I don't care to run. But if I wanted to, I would like change myself image first before even trying to wake up early and, and like drag myself out of bed and, you know, rely on discipline. Like, that's all hard. I'm just going to do the work internally first so that it becomes easy.

Yeah. I love that. I love the mindset shift. I am very much so in the middle of like pragmatic and spiritual. I feel like I give a bit of a balance with that, but there is a part of me that is a little bit more spiritual. And I do believe in some of the quantum physics theories that state that your energy creates your life and the biofield around us, which is actually measured by science, we all have a biofield of energy around us. I deeply believe that the energy that you put out is the energy that you attract back. Really, we just, we can't think you enough for just your openness about your own life and your story and your struggles. And it's really, inspiring to see what you've done and how you turned your life around. You're getting married.

Thank you. Yes. And how long have you guys been together? Seven and a half years. Oh, okay. He's my first boyfriend. Remember, I was single at 21 and I did an activation. And the next day I found him, that was the, he's the guy. Oh, my God. How did you guys meet? Bumble. Okay. Okay. Did you know? Like, he was the one or like, I'm curious how like your activations and your mindset and your manifestations kind of translated into him? Well, first of all, with activations, it's very important to focus on how it feels. So some people think that you can like manifest a very specific thing. But I don't believe that I believe that you can manifest a very specific feeling that thing will give you. So I'm kind of open to the universe surprising me with

what it actually is. So I was the day before on October 12th, 2017, I recorded an activation, describing Ben, my partner. And there were some more visual aspects, like he's 6-4 with dark hair. You know, obviously I think that was a bit more luck because I believe in the feeling of it being more. He's 6-4? You're little. I know, I know.

Good for you. Our height difference. You guys met the same week we met. Oh, my gosh. Wow. A lot happened energetically in that week. 17. October 17.

Listen, October is like a thing. We were the 9th. October is like, I just had a big thing about October. A big week for us. We love October. Everything happens to October. That's so crazy. You manifested for us, actually. Well, we're all manifesting together.

But anyway, so on October 12th, I recorded one, and I obviously said something about how he looked, but I also said mainly how he made me feel. And I really emphasize that I really like, I'm a helpless romantic. So I'm like, we have these movie moments together all the time. Like, he makes me feel this way. He's charming. Like, I just described him. And the following day I met him.

Oh my gosh. Like one day later, I've met him. And since then, we've been inseparable. And yeah, he was my first boyfriend. We're getting married in July. And I definitely, I didn't know the minute I met him that he would be my, like, I didn't have this feeling, oh, that's my husband. Yes.

And I don't think that's real. Yeah. People can say it and it's fine. If that's your story, then it's a coincidence that it worked out that way. But yeah. Exactly. And our relationship was not perfect from the, like, I'm saying this perfect story, but the reality is we've had loads of ups and downs.

Like we have had years where maybe we kind of fell out a little bit and fell back in. Like we've been together for a long time. So I'm not here saying that like, you know, it's been perfect from day one. But he, it's just become more and more like this relationship that I just, I don't know what I would do without him. I'm so excited to marry him. I actually was meeting. I met with one of our like big composers yesterday for lunch as I was mentioning. He's creating like a custom song for me to walk down the aisle.

I'm going to be living in activation. I will. I just want to hear it. I will. I will actually probably have it on the app too. Okay. I'll actually probably have it on the app. I will actually probably go to

I'm literally going to be walking in my own activation. So then I can also relive the moment. 100 times. Yeah, music is so huge. I was talking to this wedding planner yesterday and I was like, I'm going to DJ the wedding. I need someone who can hit play, but I'm such a psychotic person about music.

Like, I'm going to have the playlist. This is when these things are going to happen. During dinner, during dancing. You know, I don't want to miss a song that I went played at my wedding. So, you know, I love that. When is your wedding? Hopefully November. Oh, my gosh.

So exciting. So, okay. And then you mentioned masturbating. Oh, my God. And manifesting. This is off air. We can't. Okay.

We don't talk about your specific taste in masturbating. But if you want to, we can. I actually don't do it that much because every time I'm horny, Ben is just like on it. Like, he's such a guy. I love to hear it. That's the dream. I don't even know how, like, I don't share this a lot.

But anyway, I'll be, I'll be girls got to eat vibes right now. Yeah. Vives only. But no, when we were talking out there about, like, I'm such a manifester that like, once years ago I read, oh, like when you're about to orgasm, if you think about the things that you're manifesting, like, it draws it in closer to you energetically. And I was like, kind of makes sense. Because, like, for me, like, manifesting is all about how you feel.

And, like, how do you feel when you're having an orgasm? You feel, like, incredible. And your energy is, like, like, like expansive and big and like you just feel high on life right so I have started and it's not even in like it's in sex and so Ben is like did you do it this time I'm like yeah oh my god Ben's like I can tell you're manifesting wait I know I'll do with him just like opened up my world I've always done it during masturbation I even did that with our company our sex toy company oh my god now you've something to do during doggy yeah but now that I'm doing it in sex I'm

I'm manifesting during sex okay yeah so Well, do it in a position you don't love, you know? Sex manifestation. That is so funny. No, like, I'm not thinking. Yes. Did you manifest? I don't do it every time.

Listen, I don't do it every time. But it's a different type of orgasm. It's weird. Not to get into the specifics. You could do it during anal and just disassociating. Yeah, but I like that. Like, I'll die without ever.

I like that you could manifest. I love how this podcast is just taken a complete turn. We had to do it. We'll bring it back to anal. But I like the sex manifestation with your partner and like what you want out of that relationship. Oh no, I don't even think about our relationship. I'm like, I've already got that. I'm thinking about money. I know. Because you already got the ring, bitch. I'm saying, if you want to get engaged, what better time to be like. Sure, but like, I'm being honest. Like,

I'm very, like, I know it's sometimes distasteful to talk about money, but I fucking love manifesting money because I came from so little and I've created so much for myself. Like, it's just such a fun thing for me to manifest because I really feel like it's unlimited. I don't think it's right about Just taste. Listen, there's a certain way to speak about everything. But like, if I'm going to be life coached by somebody that's like, you can have this life you want, the money you want, I want to be like, have you done that?

Have you gotten the money that you're talking about that I can have? Oh my God. So I started doing this, especially with money. So like when I'm about to, I'm like, okay, I'm thinking about the number. I'm thinking about how it feels. I'm thinking about the abundance. I'm thinking about the opportunity. Like, I'm thinking about the number.

And I was doing this. And listen, at the end of the day, I have probably done this maybe 20 times in my life, like this orgasm manifesting. it's not going to do it every time, but it definitely works because it like permeates your energy in some way. And like it makes you feel like I honestly feel like activations. You know how they say like remember when you were younger, they're like, oh yeah, when you do this to your knee or like when you sneeze, it's like an eighth of an orgasm. I feel like doing activations is like an eighth of an orgasm. I love that because I feel that way and I like tune into that same frequency when I'm in that state.

And this shouldn't have happened by the way. Like I haven't done much. marketing for my business. Like I don't have millions of followers online. Like it's not like it just all came to me. Like my entire business in itself has been a manifestation. Like things just come to me. People just start talking about it. And I really do believe it. I'm the source of the energy that's been creating this. Yeah. That's the secret. I like that people are like, what's your secret? For a lot of people it was, well, I had millions of followers. And that's, you know, not such a secret. But you like, that is what happened. It just happened too easily almost. Like, and I had had, it's not like this is my first business and I'm just magically now a millionaire.

Like before this I tried many different businesses and I failed many, many times. But this is different. Like I really feel like because it's also a business that so many people are also getting the same results from, like it's just this like ball, this like flywheel of just happiness, success, abundance for everyone involved. And it really just the energy of the business itself, it's what I preach, it's who I am, it's abundance. It's big. It's unlimited. It's happiness. It's awe. I love the feeling of an awe for life. Like that feeling of like, wow. This is like everything is coming together. Everything is connected. And it's extremely exciting to just even talk about because it just shouldn't have happened.

Like this has all happened in a very unique way. And then we just start seeing people out of the woodworks come out and like say that they love the app. Like Miranda Kerr messaged me and she was like, oh my God, I love the app. Like, you know, just random people that I'm like, okay, like, wow. Like, people are just talking about this. It's really special. Yeah, they're being impacted. And of course, you guys know where to get the app. But Mimi, tell everybody where to find you, your company, everything.

Yeah, absolutely. So I'm probably not on Instagram, but if you want to go on my Instagram, it's at Mimi Bouchard. My first ever book with Hay House is coming out in April. So you can pre-order that now on Amazon. It's called Activate Your Future Self. and it is just so much info. I'm so excited for people to read it. It's like my whole life's teachings in one book.

So go pre-order, activate your future self. And yeah, I guess check me out on Instagram and see if I ever post again. I also, just to remind everyone if they want to take advantage of the girls got to eat big, big discount on yearly memberships for the Activations app. They can go to activations.com slash gGE and take advantage of the two weeks free, money back guarantee, and the massive of yearly discount. Yes. And if you guys forget that, it's on our website.

Also at girls got to eat. com and in the episode description. I also think that we're putting a playlist of both of your favorite activations on the website. Oh. So if people want to go to the website and look at both of your favorite activations, they can see which ones there are. Okay.

Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. And you guys know where to find us. Girls Gotta eat. com. That's our website. Girls Gotta Eat podcast on Instagram and TikTok.

I'm Ash Hess. Raina is Rayna. It's Greenberg. Our company Vibes Only. So you can masturbate and manifest. Vibesonly.com. Subscribe on YouTube, share this episode with a friend, and we will see you Thursday. Have a happy New Year, guys.

We love you so much. Thank you for being here, kicking the ear off with us. We can't wait for 2025. Bye.