Badass Is The New Black (Season 3) Episode #9: Live Your Best Life Now With Brooke Craig

The holistic housewife, Brooke Craig, is in the house today with Krissy Chin talking about anxiety and depression - how to move past them so you can live your best life at home and in your business. Brooke is all about trying to live life as happy and holistically as possible in this modern day. She opens up about her struggle with anxiety and depression, and the importance of setting boundaries. They also talk about her book and what inspired her to write it. If you are feeling down and need to smile and laugh today, tune in.

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Live Your Best Life Now With Brooke Craig

Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner

The Holistic Housewife is in the house talking about anxiety and depression, how to move past it so you can live your best life at home and in your business. I don't know how Brooke and I managed to take a hard topic and have some laughs but we did it. If you're feeling down and need to smile and laugh, tune in to this episode.

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Let's welcome Brooke Craig, The Holistic Housewife, to the show. She's a wife, mother, board-certified holistic health practitioner, a soulful, self-loving life coach, a Young Living Essential Oils enthusiast, and an author. She's all about trying to live life as happy and holistically as possible in this modern day. What I love about Brooke is that she believes we aren't meant to live life in mediocrity. We are designed for awesomeness. We're not meant to settle for less. We're meant to shine bright and to live the life that we deserve, which feels so aligned with me, which is why I'm excited to talk to Brooke because I feel like we're kindred spirits from afar. Welcome, Brooke, to the show. I'm excited that you're here.

Thanks. I'm excited to do this.

Let's dive right in and learn a little bit more about your background and how you ended up doing what you're doing.

The story is a long one. I'll try to keep it short. I tell my story often that, for me, it’s like there's no value in it anymore. For someone else, it's important and that's why I share it and I share it openly. For those of you who don't know me, I deal with anxiety. With anxiety, you get the side effect of depression and stuff like that. If you're easily triggered, I want you to take a deep breath and hear my heart with this. My intentions are never to trigger anyone. You're not alone in this struggle.

I was married at nineteen. I had my first baby at 23. I started my own business. I was an event planner. I live down here in South Florida. I had built this business from the ground up and I was proud of it. We’re busy. We have multiple weddings every single weekend. We were featured in magazines and on TV. A few years into my business, my husband was like, “I'm not happy.” It was more words than that. I'm never home. I'm always on my phone, Googling color schemes and pictures and stuff like that. As moms, we do so much. If I’m bothered, I would snap. I wasn't snapping at him, I was snapping at my son that was 2.5, 3 years old at the time.

When he came to me, it was right after the holidays, which is one of the busiest times for the wedding industry, I felt sideswiped. My first instinct was like, “You're not going to tell me what to do. I'm a strong, independent woman. You should be proud of me and not angry at me.” I had to sit with that and hear his heart on that. I did realize that I am busy, I am stressed out. Even though this is my passion and it's a creative outlet for me, it does consume me. I feel that and I see that. I decided to close my business. Because I had been going on for many years, non-stop, being a mom, keeping the house clean, CrossFit, eating healthy, running my business, helping my husband with his business, the minute that I decided to let go of this, my body freaked out on me.

My son was in school. I closed my office and I was bringing things home. As I'm going up the stairs, I'm bringing the pictures in and I was going to hang the pictures on my wall and my body started to feel weird. I was like, “What is this?” I started to feel almost numb tingling in my extremities and my arms and my legs. I started to feel my heart was beating fast. I figured, “I'm running up and down the stairs. It’s probably that.” Mind you, I was working on one cup of Starbucks coffee and driving back and forth.

The body is like a bucket; it can only take so much.

I was searching for a screwdriver to hang a picture and I remember opening my husband's sock drawer because that's where everyone keeps their screwdrivers. Because my body was already freaking out, my mind started to freak out. I was like, “What if I hurt myself?” At that moment, my brain stopped and my brain is like, “We're going to sit on top of this thought. We're going to sit on top of this feeling because that's not normal. What you're feeling is not normal. What you're thinking is not normal. You're going crazy.”

From that moment on, it was a two-day spiral of, “I'm going to hurt myself.” Even though I didn't want to, it was this fear. Later on, I learned that this is what's called a pure O-moment. Not a pure O in a good way, a pure OCD moment. It’s when we're in heightened states of stress, when we use and abuse our bodies, when we're constantly surrounding toxic levels of stress and toxic products. I was a bleach freak. Everything was always bleached in Fabuloso and all this stuff. It was the perfect storm of chaos. It spiraled me into a dark place.

I had admitted myself into a hospital. I Baker Acted myself, which is a 5150 type of situation. In the hospital, I remember the doctor waking me up at 5:00 in the morning. They had to strip search me, which was mortifying. The doctor is like, “You need the thoughts to stop.” I'm like, “That's why I'm here. Can you tell me why this is happening?” She's like, “Take these” I'm like, “What are these? I'm not taking these.” I realized they weren't going to discharge me until I took the meds. I had to take these meds that made me feel even worse. It started to open my eyes to how certain systems work. It's not about holistic healing. Not holistic as far as natural remedies, but the holistic. It's Band-aid this, here shut up with this. That wasn't okay with me.

I started seeing a psychiatrist and a psychologist. I started to work on myself and I started to dive more into my spirituality. I started to understand that our bodies are like a bucket and they can only take so much. For me, I wanted to feel normal. I couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. I've had to learn through those years of dealing with myself, dealing with the darkness. I had to understand that we all have anxiety. We all have these things. There are situations where we have heightened states of anxiety and we attach emotions and feelings to those things. That's what spiraled me into the holistic lifestyle.

I ended up going back to school, getting my practitioner's license. It's been uphill from there. It doesn't mean that I don't struggle. There are moments like 2020 where I'm like, “I don't know if I can keep on dealing with this.” It triggers all those thoughts. I'm more equipped now with the tools that I have and things like that to ebb through those. Before, it felt like I would take ten steps forward and 100 steps back. That's how that goes.

A lot of people can relate to 2020. If they weren't feeling any of those feelings before, if anything could trigger it, it’s 2020. Thank you for sharing that. I don't know if I had ever heard your full story. I appreciate you for opening up and sharing that with everyone. I know that’s such a big struggle with many people, anxiety and depression. I know a lot of people will relate and it will resonate with them. They'll continue to follow you from here forward because they have that connection with you. You closed your doors in your business and you focused on yourself. How was it getting back into business? Now you have your own business. You're standing out online. You've got a magazine. You've got a book and all of this. How was it getting back into it?

To be honest with you, I didn't want to do it. Going through what I went through, I had worked hard on myself. I had a lot of hard times. It almost broke up my marriage. We almost got divorced, not because I went “crazy.” There were other things going on and it was a lot. Thank God for my husband because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have been able to go through this. My husband is black and white. There are no soft edges about him, which I love and I appreciate. For him, it's like, “You can't overwhelm yourself.” I had that in the back of my head, like, “I can't overwhelm myself.” We were trying to have a second child and that was not happening at the time.

Thank God I went through what I went through. It was a year to the day that I decided to close my business. Six months after I had got out of the hospital, I found out I was pregnant. It was such a blessing because I genuinely feel like everything happens for a reason. I would not have been able to deal to have a second child. She was everything we ever wanted. She’s amazing. She's beautiful. She was the worst baby ever as far as needing to be held. Going through what I went through allowed me to embrace motherhood a lot more. I enjoyed it. Before, I was stressed out. I felt like I was failing as a mom. I buried myself into my business. Your kids, they whine, they cry, they scream, they argue. They don't have the capacity to say, “Mom, it's not you. Mom, you're doing a great job. I'm being a jerk.” It's hard not to get those praises and those accolades. Even if you're someone like me, I don't need that. It's like, “What am I doing wrong?”

When I had my second baby, she was colicky. She had issues after vaccines. We almost lost her twice. It was this crazy situation, but I remained calm. I knew that if I added one more thing to my plate, my bridge was going to break. I had found Young Living Essential Oils because I was with chronic issues. She was fourteen months and not sleeping through the night and I'm like, “We'll try these oils on her. If they don't work, I'll mute it on my credit card. It's going to be fine.”

Lo and behold, at fourteen months, that first time was for teething and I did the Lavender and the Roman Chamomile with the Copaiba on her jawline. She slept through the night. I didn't. I woke up at 3:50 in the morning and I'm crawling to her room and trying not to breathe because I didn't want to wake her up. I’m trying to blink and see if she's breathing but I'm still half asleep. It was the funniest thing ever. I thought, “She slept through the night.” I was hooked.

My upline was like, “Why don't you try the business?” I'm like, “No. leave me alone.” I was probably nasty about it. I have to ask them. I was like, “Leave me alone. I don't want to sell your oils. I'm going to use them.” One day, I posted how excited I was that she slept through the night and then it would heal the diaper rash and I was like, “Dang.” It was downhill from there. I was worried like I was going to overwhelm myself. It was important for me.

Before, you didn't have boundaries with your first business and you were like, “If this is going to work, we're going to have to set some boundaries.” That's important for every entrepreneur. If you guys aren't setting boundaries or it hasn't dawned on you to set boundaries in your business, it's time to think about it. I have to constantly remind myself of boundaries. Set the work hours. Designate time. For me, I will let my business consume me. I love it so much. It feels easy to do. I do find myself always doing work because I enjoy it, but then snapping at the kids because they're asking me for strawberries. I'm like, “I'm trying to finish this email. Leave me alone. I am a horrible mother.”

That guilt can be such a heavy burden. There are a lot of us out there that are mompreneurs, so to speak. At the end of the day, we lay down and we're done. Our poor husbands don't even get anything else from us because we're on E. We do the ruminating of like, “I did this. I still need to do X, Y, and Z tomorrow. Don't forget to call Becky with the good hair because she needs shampoo and I got to remind her. I can't believe I yelled at little Sally. She's sweet. She didn't deserve that.” It's this additional weight that we don't need to carry.

Having those boundaries, there's so much power in no or not right now. One of the biggest tools that I've learned in my business is saying, “I’m not sure.” You don't have to be the vessel for everything. That's like a God filled hole to fill. You don't have to be the knowledge, the Encyclopedia of whatever it is that you do. There's nothing wrong with asking for help. Having those boundaries and being authentic in those boundaries is important.

I used to think about, “I have to set boundaries so that I can get my work done.” The boundaries are to protect me, my family and my relationships for me. Doing work all the time and then everyone is pissed because I'm yelling at everyone. For everyone, it's completely different. It resonates with everything that you said. All the things that are going through your head as you're trying to raise your babies and you're trying to have your relationship with your significant other blossom and not fizzle out, die out and fuel this business. Whatever the business is that you're doing, whether you're a coach or you’re in marketing, it takes energy.

Being an entrepreneur takes a strong person, whether you're female or male. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what gender you are or what gender you identify with. You're going to be multitasking. As an entrepreneur, you have to be a master of multitasking. If you cannot deal, it's not going to work out. I made posts about this and I've talked about this. It's not about the Insta fame or the followers or the love that you get on social media or how amazing you will think that you are. It's important to think about the legacy. It’s like, “What type of legacy do I want to leave?”

When I think about my legacy, it's not oils, it's not my business, it's not my bank account. It's the relationships that I have. That's what defines success. It’s now how many relationships you have, but the quality and the love behind those relationships and the realness behind those relationships. If you're in Young Living or you're an entrepreneur, you're in the business to build relationships. The foundation of those relationships starts at home. We lose track of that because we're like, “We got to meet this deadline. It's hustle week.” When you feel you're not getting somewhere, focus back on yourself and focus back on those relationships that are important. If you can show up and you can be filled up, then you're going to be more productive.

Let's dive into your books. I'm excited to talk to you about your book. I'm excited to read it and get all of your nuggets. Tell us about your book. What made you decide to write it? Who is it for?

I took a chance because I was like, “This is a sexy photo with a plunging neckline.” I was like, “I'm going to go for it.” It's about stepping outside of your comfort zone. I wrote this book with the intention of helping people show up as their authentic self. We all see it. We all see many people showing up on social media and trying to be perfectly airbrushed and flawless. Their hair is always done. Their makeup is always done. Their family looks perfect. They don't struggle. I try to come to a point on my social media where I'm sharing my struggles but not in a complaining, naggy way because I can do that. It's important to be able to show up as yourself.

There's so much power in “no” or “not right now.”

When I first started my business, I was trying to be the people at the top. I was trying to use words that this person was saying because that connected with my brain and it sounded great. I wanted to sound great, too. There's nothing wrong with showing up with who you are. I realized that was a full-time job of trying to be the people that I thought I should be instead of surety and that security and being able to stand confident, shifting people's mindset and getting out of those comparison traps. This book is about how to get out of your own way and stand confident in your business.

Many people need that. I need that. Many times, I'm thinking about, like, “Does this look good enough? Did I say this well enough? Is it going to draw someone's attention?” I'm always second-guessing what I'm putting out there. There's a whole reason this show exists. We're all badass in our own way. If you're not showing your uniqueness about yourself, you're not standing out from anybody else. Copy the people that you love. Whenever it feels icky to you, it’s not you and don't ever do it again. That's the hard part and it feels like a full-time job if you're trying to be somebody you're not.

It’s another pressure. When we can be ourselves unconditionally and unapologetically, it's such a beautiful thing. We can share that. We're having an energetic exchange here. On social media, that happens too. People can feel your authenticity. They can feel whether you're down or you're happy or you're fudging it. It’s important to make sure that energetic exchange is a positive one and a productive one for people.

I always say, “Follow the people that resonate with you. Follow the people that you love but don't try to be them.” Your friends, your fans, whatever you want to call them, they're there to see you. They're there to see Krissy. They're there to see Brooke. They don't want you talking like anybody else because that's not who they vibe with and that's not realistic for them. Being able to show up and normalizing those things is important. There are many things on social media. Even in business, how many times have you dealt with a business where you feel you've been taken advantage of or someone is trying to sell you something? There are ulterior motives. We've all had that feeling. Your business, the way you show up, the way you talk is massive but we can't humanize if we're not being our true, authentic selves.

One of the scariest things about being your true self is people are going to be judging you for you. I heard Kim Kardashian in an interview and she was giving props to actors and actresses because that's a hard job because you're pretending to be someone else. She's like, “On my show I'm trying to be me, but it's scary. If people watch a movie and they don't like the character, that's a character you're playing. If they see me on TV and they don't like me like, it's me. They don't like me.” No one likes to not be liked.

The reality is that not everyone in the world is going to like you. There are people out there that you don't like. How can you expect everyone to like you? If you take that pressure off of not everyone has to like me and if I’m my true, authentic self, I'll resonate and draw in and attract the people that do love me for me, which will feel your energy, that's all you need. It's letting go. The title of your book, Leading With Valor, if readers can get there and lead with courage to be who you are, your authentic self, the things that you want will come.

That's true. It makes it much easier to show up when you're being yourself. It might be hard at first to cut the cord with the fear of judgment or cut the cord with the anxiety of what if. If you're constantly held down by those shackles, you're not going to go anywhere. We're meant to soar. We're meant to fly, but we can't unless we deal with those things. There's nothing wrong saying, “I can't deal with people judging me for X, Y, and Z.”

I say it in my book, I have such a hard time being judged. What I've realized in my life is that I curse. I've had many people that are like, “I can't follow you because you said the F word.” I'm like, “I'm not a bad person.” If someone cannot see my heart and see that it's a form of expression, then I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. I'm sorry I offended you, truly and genuinely. Maybe you're not my people. It used to bother me. Someone sent me a song by Kacey Musgraves, Cup Of Tea. You guys have to google it. It's the best song ever. There's a lot of judgment and it's hard. On the other end, here I am pouring my heart into the stuff that I do, putting myself out there for you to judge me. That's not cool. At the end of the day, you never know what someone else is going through.

The same thing is for Kim Kardashian. She can show up and stand confident and the fact that she's being her true self. If someone feels like they need to judge, maybe they're seeing the things about her that they don't like about themselves. That's your burden to bury. That's not your cross to carry. It stinks because the majority of us want to help people. We want to do things and be a positive influence in people's lives when someone's hurting. When they judge me, I feel like I have to explain this and I don't want to upset you.

At the end of the day, my defenselessness gives me much more power, like that’s saying something about myself. There's something that's not healed inside of me. It’s the reason why I need to show up and defend myself, but I don't need to. My safety lays in my defenselessness. When I show it to defend, it's never going to be productive. It's going to be a constant open-ended argument with someone because those are the people that are not going to receive what you have to say anyway.

You hit the nail on the head right there. Entrepreneurs, we have clients, I'm sure someone has got some nasty emails about how they didn't like X, Y, and Z in your business or your products or your service or whatever. You have to learn how to not let it bother you. I like what you said. I call it receiving it through their filter. You can put something out there and based on what their filter is how they're taking that in. One person looks at it and was like, “That was inspiring.” The other person looks at it and is like, “Oh my gosh.” Whatever their reaction is, it’s a negative reaction. You can't control something that's going on in their life. Someone that they know passed away. They're having an anxiety attack.

At that moment, whatever it is causing them not to appreciate what's going on or not find value in it, you can't control that. Defending yourself isn't going to do anything. My mindset coach, in those situations, he was like, “What do you need to do for you?” I was like, “I feel misunderstood. I need to say my piece.” He's like, “If that's what you need for you, then you can do that.” Don't expect that they're going to come back and be like, “He has rainbows and butterflies. I get it. I'm sorry.” He's like, “If you need to say what you need to say for you, then say it” Know that they're taking it through their filter and it has nothing to do with you, whatsoever. I've got much better. I don't need to say what it is to not feel misunderstood or whatever. Now, I accept. It doesn't have anything to do with me. I am pure. I am genuine. I am trying to do the best that I absolutely can.

It’s important to recognize your intentions. We're a society of not looking at intentions. We're a society of emotional reactions. We're human. We're all going to have emotional reactions and emotional responses. What we have to start doing is looking at someone's heart behind what they're doing than how we're perceiving. We're never going to fix that. I talk about that in my book. When you feel that burning in your chest or that fire in your stomach where you feel like you have to defend yourself or you have to respond back, don't do it. That fire is a sign from the universe or God. Let it sit for a minute. I've had to learn that because I'm quick to be like, “No.” I've learned to sit with that and be like, “What is it about this situation that is bothering me so much? Why do I feel like I need to show her what's up? Why do I feel like I need to respond? Why am I hurt?”

Most of the time, I'll respond. I always like to respond from a calm headspace more than that anxious, rapid, manic headspace. For me, it’s important when I communicate like you, if I feel necessary to have that ease of releasing it, I will tell the person, “That's hurtful. That hurt my feelings.” Most people don't genuinely want to hurt other people's feelings. Some people do. They're not your people. A lot can be lost in translation over a computer. People grow huge cojones behind the keyboard and they can get on a roll. Sad people hurt people, that's what they do. I had to teach my kid that, at a young age. She's angry because she’s sad on the inside. She's not angry. She's sad and it's coming out as anger. I often have to remind myself of that elementary lesson that I've learned, hurt people hurt. It stinks but the best thing you can do in those situations is to continue to show up and continue to be happy because it's going to piss them off.

What would you say to the reader out there that has anxiety and it's heightened right now and they're trying to do all of the things? What is your best advice for that person out there to make it through the end of the day and make it to the next day?

Breathe, honestly, oil up if you use oils. Use your oils. I was huffing this before I got on. This helps to keep my heart rate normal and keep me calm. There are a bunch of others. For someone who deals with anxiety or who has a lot of hats to wear, if you haven't figured out what your thing is, it's easy to try to get an easy answer. At the end of the day, there's no easy recipe or schedule or remedy for that.

The other thing is there are always people looking for balance. It's my opinion. I'm probably going to get a lot of stuff from this. A balance is not a tangible thing. You will never have a balance. There's always going to be something that's out of whack. When I'm feeling like I'm pouring so much into my business, I'm feeling a lot of guilt about not showing up for my kids and feeding them Cheez-It every single day and giving them a dog bowl full of water and telling them to deal. I don't do that but I'm just saying. People are slamming on their brakes. There are times where I'm like, “Give me five more minutes.” I then have to take myself and say, “I'm going to delay something. I'll take the kids to the park in the morning.” Finding balance is whatever that day needs. There are a lot of Type A people out there that are like, “I need to do this X, Y, and Z.” Once you relinquish yourself from that, it's easy.

The other thing is finding time to pour into yourself, whether that's a hot bath or asking your husband or spouse to let you sleep in 30 extra minutes. Those are golden nuggets that can revive you so much. Finding what works out for you. One thing that works for me is I wake up earlier and I check my messages. You hear all these people that are like, “I meditate in the morning.” I check my messages. That's how my eyeballs wake up. That may not be the healthiest thing, but it's what works for me. I take a shower and I get ready and get the kids ready and I have to clean. If I do not clean in the morning, if I do not wipe the kitchen down and vacuum, I'm a lunatic. I know this is one of my biggest flaws. I am a crazy person. If I can get my vacuuming done before everything else, then I'm pretty good. I figure it out throughout the day.

One of the biggest tools you can learn in business is saying, “I’m not sure.”

I homeschool three kids. I've got to deal with that. For me, vacuuming is almost like a form of meditation. I come up with the greatest ideas when I vacuum. You can do that when you're showering, too. If you have ideas, write them down. That's going to be such a big thing. I put it in my notes. I come up with quotes in my head and I'm like, “That would be great,” and 90% of the time, they're not that great and I’d go, “Why did I do that?”

You're in this flow of ideas and creation and then you're writing all this stuff down. I have many ideas for books and chapters on this. I go back and I'm like, “What was I thinking?”

You might need to sit with it longer. I was watching Eat Pray Love, which I've seen 10 million times. Every time, I get something different out of it. I was like, “I want pasta.” That's all I got out of it was. There was something about control. I wrote control and then I put focus on your mind. I don't need to elaborate. What that's going to do for me is I'll be able to sit with that and then take time to pour my heart into that and give value to somebody in a post or whatever. Being able to go through your day and not drastically alter your day or inconvenience something, if you need to pause for a moment to focus on something else, that's fine too.

Do you vacuum every single day?

Yeah. Sometimes, 6 or 7 times a day. I swear on my life, it gets that bad. We're having some construction done in the house right before Thanksgiving because I'm a crazy person. I host Thanksgiving for 30 to 40 people. I have to start cooking through the weekend. It's a lot and it's stressful. I do rentals and centerpieces. It's the one time of year that I can have my event planning creativity out. These guys have been in my house and I’m like, “Can you please leave so I can vacuum?”

I don't want to tell you that the house only gets vacuums, unless there's a major spill, every other week when the cleaners are here.

I have housekeepers, too. They come once a week. Don't ever tell yourself, “I don't want this. I can't afford this.” You find a way to make it work and get help. If you need a housecleaner once a week, once a month to give you a break, do it. They come once a week. I'm like, “That's my gift to myself with my paycheck.” We live on five acres and we have animals. My chickens were coming in the house and I was like, “Get outside.” My kids, they’re dirty sometimes. My husband is the worst. He's a contractor and he'll come home with concrete all over him and I'm like, “Outside.”

We've had leaves on the floor for days and I'm like, “We're living with the leaves.”

If that's what works for you, I'm not judging you. The best thing that I've learned is when we judge people, it says more about us. I've noticed that when I judge people it's because of something with me. I'm not saying that I'm not judgmental at all because I am. I've learned to become, like, “Whatever. That's you.” I judge myself hardcore and that's a big thing. The vacuuming, I need a twelve-step program for it.

What I also love is that we're different. You need to vacuum six times a day and I'm living with leaves and probably dead ladybugs. We’re different in some aspects and then we're aligned in others. Now, as a time of anywhere there's so much division, you can be different from people in some areas in your life and be aligned in others and not let one little thing separate you.

Agreeing to disagree is such a lost trait. This can go down a whole rabbit hole and we won't go there. If you believe that or that's your lifestyle, great. We're not proud of each other for finding what works. We're no longer proud of each other for being confident in something that’s opposite. Because you don't vacuum every day, it doesn't mean that I'm like, “What?”

You may think twice if you come to visit. I'm like, “Do you want to stay here?” You're like, “I'm good.”

I’ll come help. I’m like, “Can I vacuum for you?” It's not because your house is disgusting. It's because I need to do it. I will never claim to be perfect. You could eat off my floors. You could eat out of my toilets, but there's never clean underwear or socks. It’s balance.

Brooke is the person that's calling the Airbnb before she arrives, “Is there a vacuum there? I need to know.”

Where’s the local Target or Walmart so I can buy one?

You'll have one when you leave. That’s a good place to wrap up. Before we go and tell everyone how to find you, I have a little game that I want to play with you. Are you in for it?

Yes.

It's like would you rather or rapid-fire. There's a mix of questions.

Being an entrepreneur takes a strong person, whether you're female or male. You have to be a master of multitasking.

No thinking. No brain cells necessary.

The first thing that comes to mind and some of them are random. Are you ready?

Yeah.

Wine or liquor?

Liquor.

Really?

This is the thing. I’m going to Tequila Casamigos all the way because wine has so much sugar in it and I'm like, “I feel better. I'm going to be skinnier if I drink tequila.”

Tequila makes me blackout, but I do enjoy it. Go on a shopping spree with Kim Kardashian or girls from The Home Edit?

Girls from The Home Edit. I’m sorry, Kim. I love you, but I need some organization and cute baskets and stuff in my life.

Pool or beach?

Beach.

Would you rather have McSteamy or McDreamy be your real-life doctor?

McSteamy.

Work hard or play hard?

I have no life. I would like to play hard. Realistically, work hard.

Camping or glamping?

I've never gone glamping. I like camping.

Stranded on a desert island, what's the one food you bring?

Sushi. Spicy tuna roll. Rice. I can make my own spicy tuna roll.

Follow the people that resonate with you. Follow the people that you love but don't try to be them.

Who would you rather have sing you to sleep, Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, or Justin Bieber?

If you would’ve asked me a few years ago, it would have been John Mayer, even though he's a womanizer. He's got a great voice. Ed Sheeran doesn't do it for me. Justin Bieber, I feel like he needs a hug so Justin Bieber.

Coffee or tea. These can be neither also.

I'm a tea freak. I have a whole cabinet full of tea that's probably expired but who cares. No judgment.

Don't even worry about those. That's something they put on there to try and sell more. Save or spend?

A little bit of both. I have a hard time spending on myself, but I will spend it on someone else.

What scares you more, aliens or the deep ocean?

The deep ocean is terrifying. I had a traumatic experience. When I was seven years old, my dad took me to see Fire in the Sky. I don't know if you've ever seen it. Don't watch it. It's terrifying. It is not for a seven-year-old. I was looking out my window and I thought there was a UFO there for a year. I'm terrified of aliens.

I've not seen that movie and I’ll make a note to not see it. Brooke, this was so much fun. You guys can find Brooke as @HolisticHousewife1 on Instagram. Grab her book, Leading With Valor. Until next time, remember to channel your inner badass and take imperfect action every single day. Thank you, Brooke, for being here.

Thanks for having me.

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