Life Update: Puppies, GLP1 Peptides and What's Next for 2026

Hey friends! 

Today I'm back sharing about what’s changed over the past few months, including bringing a new puppy into our lives, starting a GLP-1 (Ozempic) and what's changed since we last talked. 

I share what surprised me most about starting a GLP-1, especially how quieting food noise and alcohol cravings gave me back mental space I didn’t realize I’d lost.

I also share about the judgment that comes with this medication, how I navigated talking to my doctor, what my bloodwork showed, and why I see GLP-1s as a tool, not a shortcut.

I end this episode with a shift that has affected my energy, focus, and how I’m thinking about my business and this podcast heading into 2026.

This episode is my personal experience, not medical advice. If anything here resonates, talk to your healthcare provider and do what feels right for you.

If you’re a midlife woman juggling hormones, a business, family, and trying to feel like yourself again, this one’s for you.

Links & resources mentioned:

• Goose on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goose_the_minibernadoodle
• DOOU (Canadian online health service): https://doou.ca
• Chalene Johnson: https://www.chalenejohnson.com

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Transcript

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Hey guys. Welcome back to How it's really going with Shayna Wrecker. I know I have been away again. There's been another pause in live episodes, but for good reason. You've probably noticed that I added a few episodes a couple weeks ago depending on when you're listening to this. It's today's December 28th. I added a bunch of episodes, I think three episodes, I think at the beginning of December. And those episodes were from the Patreon podcast that I had started in the summer and I had decided to not do the Patreon not too long ago. And I didn't want those episodes to go to Waze'cause I really liked the content that I shared in there. The actual last live episode I did on here was when we lost Ozzy in July, and that is part of the reason why I had a pause in doing episodes. The other reason that I took a pause in doing episodes is because. We did bring in a new puppy to our life. And that is part of what I want to talk about today, is our new puppy Goose. But before I do, I just wanna share that I am excited to be sharing this life update with you guys today. I have lots of great things to talk about, including Goose, including starting a GLP one, including talking about some things that I'm looking forward to for next year. And with that set being said. Okay. As a midlife, hormonal, whole perimenopausal woman, as I've talked about a lot of that stuff on this podcast. And I continue to talk about that and I will continue to talk about that on here because I believe a lot of you who are listening to my podcast are that midlife woman, business owner. A lot of you guys have kids and dogs and all the things. I want my podcast to be all of those things. I wanna talk about business, sometimes I wanna talk about hormones. Sometimes I wanna talk about just life in general sometimes, and I don't wanna have different podcasts for all these things. And I feel like when I share what I'm going through, when I share the things that I'm learning and the things that I'm experiencing. I hope that is helpful to you. I know it is for me when I listen to other people, share things in that realm. And so I just want you to know moving forward with this podcast is, this, is what you're gonna hear is episodes like this where I'm talking about puppies, I'm talking about hormones, I'm talking about, business, I'm talking about goals. Like it's gonna be that mix and that's just the only way I can do it. It's just me. It's how I am. I've usually got five, to 10 different things on my mind at any given time, I can't let this podcast go. There is something here for me. I've just needed time to. Figure out how to do all the things that I want to do, and that's where I'm gonna end today's podcast with. I've had some shifts. I've had some changes. I wanna share that with you because I think that'll be helpful for you. What I've gone through, and just also give some hope, because I know like two, three years ago when I was really in the thick of my perimenopausal journey, like I couldn't see the forestry, the trees kind of thing, like I was in a space of. Not even sure if I even, wanted to have a business. I was trying to find a job'cause I was just, I couldn't, it was just, it just wasn't, it was very messy and I feel much better now. And I wanna share that with you because if you are in the thick of the messy, I wanna give you some hope that there's another side to this. We'll talk about that at the end of this podcast. But. The main thing I wanna share with you guys today is my journey on a GLP one. So I'm gonna talk about that, but before I do, I wanna share that we did get a puppy. So if you listen to my last episode that I uploaded on here, which was in July where I shared how we lost our dog of nine years, Ozzy unexpectedly, and how painful that was. And we had gone two, three weeks without Ozzy, maybe four or five weeks actually, before we finally made the decision about the puppy. There was just something missing in our home, and I think if you are dog people and you've always had dogs, I grew up with dogs. There's just almost always been dogs in my life. There was a brief time where there wasn't, but there's just an energy that a puppy, or not even a puppy, a dog, brings to your home. There's definitely an energy a puppy brings to your home, but you don't want that energy all the time. There's just something that a, furry family member brings to your home, and it was definitely missing from ours. So after a bit of research, finding the right breed for us, there were things that we loved about Ozzy, but there were definitely things that we would've changed if we could. So we landed on getting a mini bernedoodle we got him at the end of September and he has been just such a. Joy, it's definitely been a challenge. Puppy is no joke. We had to readjust our life, readjust a lot of things which is, also part of the reason why I haven't had much time to do podcast episodes.'cause for the first, I would say eight weeks, it was just, he was just constant. It took us a while to really. Figure out some sort of routine. He's gonna be five months in January, and I think we're in a good spot However, he is entering into the puppy teenage phase, which is also no joke. But it does move fast, He does have his own Instagram. If you do wanna follow him, it's goose the underscore mini bernadoodle. I know I need a better name, but that's just what I did in the moment. So I just share little things on there just so that people don't get sick of me sharing just goose stuff on my own profile. But yeah, it's been a lot of fun and we are super ha, super happy to have him as part of our life. So that was one of the big changes that has happened since I last chatted with you guys. Now, the other big change that I wanna share with you, and this is the main topic that I wanna share with you guys on this podcast, is my journey starting on a GLP-1. So if you're not familiar with the GLP one, it is the peptide that helps you lose and maintain weight, is what I'm gonna say. I am not a doctor. I am not a professional nutritionist. I am none of those things. I am somebody who just wanted to try this, who did some research. And I'm sharing that journey with you. So if any of this sounds interesting to you, please make sure you talk to a health professional before you do anything. And I will share how I did all of that here in this episode. So let's just go back to I don't even know when, I'm just gonna say, let's go back to the minute that I realized that I had put on almost 18 pounds and that would've been, I don't know, maybe last year. When I was trying to find a doctor to help me with my hormones, and every time I went to a new doctor, they had to weigh me. And when I'd get on the scale, it was always in kilograms, but I'd get on the scale and I would see that number, and I'd be like, oh. And then I'd do the calculations to figure out where I was. And I realized I had put on like, like 18 pounds. Basically. I, and I don't care about numbers, it doesn't really matter. My baseline weight was always around 1 50, 1 55. And that was just always where I naturally kind of landed in my life. You know, obviously in 20, my twenties, it was probably a bit less, but for most of my life, that's where I landed. And when I was at my heaviest, I was about 1 68, 1 69, depending on the day. And that was very uncomfortable for me. I and keep in mind I was putting on weight while I was, doing my workouts, trying to prioritize protein. I definitely got better at prioritizing protein and, my workouts and stuff in the last year or so, but I was still doing those things as I was. In my prior years, like I, I really, not a lot had changed, but my weight kept going up and so I was adjusting my calorie intake, I was trying all these different things. I even talked about it, I think on one of the podcasts. I was using Chachi P Tea as a meal tracker to kind of help keep my proteins up and my calories and all those things in check. And nothing was changing. Nothing was changing, and I'm not about. Being a certain size, like everybody has their own baseline or their own place where they feel their best. And for some people it's just it's, for some people it's higher, lower, whatever. It doesn't matter. That is irrelevant. That's not the point of me sharing this. It's not about the size that I was, it's about how I felt in my own skin and when I was 18 pounds over my natural body weight. I hated getting dressed. I would go out for weekends, like we were going out on the weekend or whatever. I couldn't like every, like, I probably put on 15 outfits before I finally just settled on one, and, just hated the way I felt the whole night. My jeans always felt tight. My clothes felt tight, during the day I was always wearing like stretchy pants and stuff for work because I just hated the feeling of my clothes on my body. I started, of course, buying bigger things so that I was more comfortable, but I also didn't like that either. That also felt really not great. And I remember looking back at some photos when we were out with some friends and there were some photos that I posted on Instagram, and I remember seeing my face feeling like, gosh, my face just looks so puffy and like. I'm I didn't know what else to do. I was on the hormones. I was doing the things, and nothing was changing. Now, I had talked to somebody who I knew who was on a GLP one. She is taking ozempic now at this point, she was personally getting it from a private clinic where she was paying to get the appointments, paying for all these things. It was a lot of money to get a GLP one when you weren't technically considered overweight. Like I didn't qualify even at 18 pounds overweight. I didn't qualify my BMI didn't qualify for a GLP one. I think it was like a point or two maybe off. And so it was frustrating because there's, anytime I went on to the online pharmacy places and filled out the questionnaires and did the things, I was never accepted. I was too afraid to ask my doctor about it.'cause I thought she would think I was kind of crazy and I didn't think she would be open to giving somebody who technically didn't qualify a GLP one. There was part of my brain that was like, you just need to suck it up and just love yourself and all that stuff. But that was even hard. Like I, as much as I am somebody who. Thinks that everybody should just love themselves no matter what. I do believe that it's hard when you don't feel like yourself in your own skin. I don't know how else to describe it. And so for me, I, I had a lot of trouble accepting this new version of me'cause it didn't feel like me. I ended up after doing tons of research, I mean, I'm somebody, if you know me, I have A-D-H-D-I hyperfocus on things. When I say that I research something, I have researched it to the nth degree. I was listening to podcasts, going through chat chie, asking questions, going through articles like. You, you name it. I was just, I was immersing myself in the information.'cause I wanted to understand and see if this was for me. And I was hearing and seeing a lot of things online about people who were quote unquote microdosing. I know that's like a word that people hate about this drug because they're. There's so many different versions of what actually microdosing is, but I was hearing about this where people were taking a low dose of this GLP one, and it was helping them lose some of that menopausal weight. That just didn't seem to go away, no matter what people did. But the GLP one was helping it. So that's what I was looking for, is somebody, anybody online who could. Hear my story and allow me to try this to see if it would work for me. Long story short, I found somebody who would do it, and that was an online company. I know that, the rules and the guidelines and things are shifting for this medication because this is helping a lot of menopausal women to get rid of that extra weight that we seem to put on. During this time, during perimenopause, even though they're doing all the things, and I remember before I tell you where I got it from, I remember listening to this podcast with Shalene Johnson and MIDI Health. Now in Canada, we don't have MIDI Health in the us they have it. And it was, they were talking about all of the benefits, not just weight loss, but all of the other benefits. There's heart benefits, there's, your joints hurt less. There's like so many different things. I'm not gonna list it all because again, I'm not a doctor. I'm not here to tell you about the drug. I'm just here to tell you my experience with it. They were talking about all these different benefits, but how from perimenopausal women, how much it was helping them even with brain fog and just, quieting some of that food noise and all the things. So after listening to that podcast, I don't know what made me go to this website. It's called. Do you? So it's capital DOO, capital U. It's a Canadian company. It's an online pharmacy company. They help with a lot of different things, hormones being one of them. I and so I filled out the application. I was completely honest with my weight, with my height, with my measurements, with my workout routine, with my food routine. For whatever reason, they approved me and I was able to start taking Ozempic was the one that they recommended. And so once I got approved, after filling out the form and getting a vaccine that was approved, and maybe they approved me because they are starting to test women who are perimenopausal, who are just in that range. Maybe you're not the right BMI, but you're slightly under, and I don't know. I have no idea. I never asked. I didn't care. But once I got approved, I was like, holy shit, I just got approved to be able to take this medication. And then all of a sudden I got nervous. It was like I was 110% in to doing this. And then I got approved and then I kind of got. But I had talked with that girl who I knew was working through a private clinic who was getting her GLP one, and she had been taking it for a year. We chatted a lot about her results and how she was feeling and all the things, and she had such a great experience and she was really happy with it. It's just made such a difference between that and the podcast and the research and all the things I decided to do it. So I remember when it first came to my doorstep, it got delivered by FedEx, I believe it was, and it came in this little package, this freezer package. And I remember getting it opening it up and there's the needle and all the things and being like, holy shit, like you're actually gonna do this. I don't know what it is about it being an injection that makes you feel like it's super risky or something, but it's no different. An injection is no different than slathering fucking estrogen all over your body. It's going through your skin into your. System. This is just a little tiny pin prick that's going in through your skin into your system. It's same, same but different in my opinion. But anyways, got the box that night, I was like, might as well just fucking start. Let's like, what's the point in waiting? So that night I did my first injection. Didn't really hurt at all. It was super easy. I do 0.25 milligrams. That's what's working for me and. I started it and so that night, I'll be honest, I did feel a little bit queasy. I think part of it was just my brain just like freaking out a little bit, but also probably the medication moving into my system. So that was in July. So for the month of July and August, really, I did have a bit of nausea, not a lot not anything that would interrupt my day, but enough to be like. Okay. I can feel that. I'm noticing that, but you know, there's lots of different things you can do. Sometimes you just need a snack. Once you eat, you feel better. Some peppermint candies and all that kind of stuff helped. But here's what I noticed the most and within the first few days of after my first injection, was the lack of food noise. I didn't realize how much I was eating and thinking about eating until that noise was quiet. And when you work from home, every, my kitchen is five steps away. So anytime I was frustrated with something or bored or whatever, my thing is, is to get up and go in the kitchen and grab a little something, something, maybe a handful of almonds, maybe a little handful of chips, maybe a apple, maybe, all kinds of different things. So I noticed that my need for snacking was like gone. I did make sure that I ate a solid breakfast, a solid lunch, and a solid dinner. I did prioritize. I do prioritize protein. I do make, I am making sure that I'm making healthy choices when I do eat, because that's the other thing that I noticed is that if you eat shitty food. When you're taking a GLP one, it feels shitty. It feels not great, and I, to eat fast food was not great. I would feel like gross after if I did that. So I noticed the food noise, like just completely quieting down to the point where I had to, in the beginning there, I had to really make sure that I was like, oh wait, it's. 1231, I need to go make sure I go eat lunch'cause I probably could have for totally forgotten to eat. So you do have to be mindful of eating properly and making good choices, but making sure you're eating enough calories because in the beginning it does really quiet the noise so much so that you kind of have to be mindful of that. The other thing that it quieted, which I wasn't, I had no idea it was gonna do, this, was the alcohol noise. So as somebody who, again, has a DHD, one of my reward loops that I have is when I am stressed, or it's been a long day, or it's, Thursday, it's almost the weekend, or it's Friday, or it's Saturday. It's like, I've earned my drink of wine. I've earned my glass of wine, I've earned my beer, I've earned my. Thing, it's time to have alcohol. It's the weekend, it's my reward. And I didn't realize how much that noise was dictating my choices around alcohol. Like to the point where if we didn't have wine in the house and I was really craving a glass of wine,'cause it'd been a hard day, like I would get in the car and go and get wine. Where? On a g, the GLP one, I didn't, I had a bottle of white wine in my fridge the week that I started this thing. It wasn't open, but it was in my fridge. That I didn't touch that for weeks and weeks. Like I think the only reason I took it outta the fridge was to take it to someone's house.'cause we were going somewhere or something and I maybe had a glass out of it and that was it. I had no desire to drink alcohol like I could. I could have a glass of wine if I wanted to. It wasn't that it tasted bad or it was gross or anything like that. It was just, I didn't crave it anymore. I just wasn't like sitting there thinking about my glass of wine at four o'clock, you know, finishing up my work going, oh, I can't wait to finish this because I'm gonna go have a glass of wine Like that used to be what was playing in my head. Thursday, Friday, Saturday kind of thing. Where now I just, if I wanna have a glass of wine, it can, but I don't need to. I don't want, I'm not sitting here craving it. And the other thing is, is when I do have a glass of wine, I don't want more than one, maybe two, and then I switch to soda or something because it doesn't, again. On a GLP one, it is slowing your digestion. So when you drink alcohol, that's also slowing your digestion and doing stuff in your digestion. So the two don't mix very well, is how I'm gonna say it. And so I just didn't really care for it. And so I, I still enjoy the taste of it, and I still would have some here and there. I still do to this day, have some here and there, but I don't need. Five of them. I need one or I have one because I can, and I want to, and I enjoy the taste, but I don't need more than one. Maybe two. It really helped me get that under control and also. It helped me see what was happening prior to this. Like, I didn't realize I was in that loop. I mean, I kind of knew,'cause you, you, you know, when you're thinking about it all the time that it's probably not great. But now I just, I don't even really think about it. Sometimes I'll still think like on a Friday night and we're doing something, I'm like, oh, let's have a glass of wine or something. Or if we're having a nice meal. But I'm not to the point, like, before it was like, let's say on a scale of one to 10, I was probably at. Eight or nine, in the craving of that, I'm maybe a two or a three now. For a while there I was a zero. Now I have been on this for six months. My body's gotten a bit used to it, so some of that noise has crept in a little bit. But man, what a difference. Like it, I, I can see how this drug. Would be very effective for people who have addictions. I really do. To help them get the clarity and get their, get that, clean out their system and get that the control back. Because once you see it, you can't unsee what you were doing before and now you can make better choices.'cause I wouldn't wanna be like that again, and I will say I was getting the drug through this online pharmacy for the last four or five months. I did finally go and talk to my doctor and say, Hey, this is what I'm doing, and I told her that I was taking the GLP one. I told her the results. I lost 18 pounds. So I'm back to my normal like weight that I've been most of my life. I lost the 18 pounds. I haven't gone anything below that. I'm just still taking the base dose. I've been taking the starter dose since July. That's all I do. I went to my doctor. I told her I was a little bit nervous. I'm not gonna lie to tell her because I feel like there's so much judgment that comes with this, you know? I didn't tell anyone really for a while. Just some very close friends. I was a little bit concerned about. You know what people would think about the fact that I was using this tool to help me lose weight, but then I didn't really give a shit. I was like, you know what? I don't care, including my doctor. I was worried that she was gonna have judge me for getting this prescription online and had some negative things to say about that. But to be honest, she was actually very happy to see that I had lost the weight. She was happy to see that I wasn't drinking as much anymore. We did a full blood panel. My blood panel came back excellent. She was very happy to see my cholesterol was perfect, my thyroid was in good shape. Like everything was in really good shape and she was very happy to see that. So she's now taking over my prescription and like taking over that with me, which made me very happy to see that she was so supportive on this. So I was very, very happy about that. Now, it might not be for everyone. I realize that there's some positives and negatives to everything and there's definitely some side effects and everybody's journey with this is gonna be different. But for me, the side effects were minimal. I don't feel any of the side effects anymore. It's a tool like just like anything else, if I were to really restrict my calories. You lose weight. That's the only way you lose weight, is to be in a calorie deficit. And so the GLP one is helping me stay in a deficit because I'm not thinking about and snacking as much and doing all of the things that I was doing before. Even though I was trying before, it was still, it was hard. It was really fucking hard. And so this has helped me. Get control, and now I'm making better choices. I'm probably more conscious of the choices I'm making now because I'm on this medication than I was before, because I feel like I wanna maximize the results that I can get. And so I'm prioritizing my eggs and my tuna and my protein and prioritizing making sure I get my three workouts in every week and just making sure I'm doing the best that I can because I don't wanna lose muscle. If you can't just go on this drug and do nothing, you have to. This is a tool in your toolbox that goes with working out, that goes with eating healthy. Then you take your GLP one, it all goes together. You can't just take a GLP one and sit on your couch and expect to lose weight. You'll probably lose weight, but a lot of that weight will be muscle. And so if you wanna keep your muscle, which is so important, but also get rid of that extra weight that seems to go on to women for no fucking reason, except for hormones, and it's annoying and it's just fucking annoying at the end of the day is what it is. You can't do anything about it. You're trying and nothing is changing. This is a tool that's helped me make that change. And I will be on this for the rest of my life if I have to. I people say, well, what happens when you come off? I don't care. I might never come off of it. And that's fine with me as long as it's not hurting me. And at at this point, my blood work's come back perfect. It's not hurting me. I will stay on it. So I had to work through the judgment. I had to work through what people say. You know how many times I went through my head when pe like in my head, before seeing somebody hadn't seen in a while. And if they said, oh, you look like you've lost weight. What am I gonna say? How am I gonna say it? How am I gonna respond? Like my overthinking? Like just ridiculous. And I just had to stop and I had to just be like, listen, if someone asks you if you've lost weight, you say thank you. Yes, I have. I've been working on myself. Thank you. You know what I mean? They don't, you don't owe anybody an explanation as to why you're doing what you're doing. If you're doing something that's working for you and it feels good and it feels right for you, and you are getting supported by a medical practitioner who knows what they're doing, then you do, you, you do what works for you. For me, that has been my that's why I'm doing this because I'm 50 years old. I wanna feel my best. This is helping me do that alongside the other things that I'm doing. And because I don't have this heaviness on my, my mind anymore about how I feel and how I like feeling like gross and feeling fluffy and feeling like nothing fits and feeling like I've got this extra weight on and not being able to do anything about it, and that is gone from my brain. Like I get dressed and I like the way I feel. I like the way I look. It is a game changer that has opened up space in my brain for me to focus on work and to focus on goals and some of the things that I wanna do for my business next year. For me, it feels like the right choice, and it feels good. And say what you want, think what you want. Have your own opinions. Everybody's entitled to them. This is what's working for me now. If you or somebody who's been thinking about this because, and I know you are, because I did a post on my Instagram stories like, I don't know, a month ago, where I slowly just, it was like I reshared a video of this doctor who was talking about the benefits of GLP ones for menopausal women. And I wrote a little caption. It was really small, just being like, Hey, I've been on this journey myself and it's been great and like, just a little bit about my journey and just sailed it out there into Instagram to see, what the response would be. And out of all the people who responded to me, it was all people who were one on a GLP one themselves and hadn't told anyone and said, oh my gosh, you're on this too. I've been on it as well and it's been so great, but I haven't told anyone'cause I'm worried about what people will say. And so we were talking about that. I had three or four people message me that. Other people messaging me going, I wanna get this too. Where did you get this from? I've been, dealing with this extra weight and I can't get rid of it and all this stuff. And it was all just positive stuff, all positive responses. Not everybody saw it. It was such a tiny little post. It was in a story. So it was only there for 24 hours and then it was gone. But it was enough to just make me realize that this is something. We need to talk about. I wanna talk about, I want, if this is something you wanna do and something that you, or maybe you are doing and you haven't been telling anyone, like why do we feel shame around this? We shouldn't feel shame. If this is something that you want, that feels good to you, fucking if and it's up to you. You might not wanna tell anybody and that's totally fine. You don't have to, I wanna tell people because I want people to enjoy the benefits of something like this. Because they, if they heard it from me and then they talk to their doctor and they get it, and they get to have these benefits too. I share because if it works for me, maybe it'll work for you and maybe you'll get these results too, and maybe you'll feel the way I feel. And so that's why I share it. And again, I, I. I just wanted to make sure that this was right for me and that I wasn't gonna have any negative side effects or anything like that. Not that I wouldn't have any, but that I wouldn't have any major side effects. And so far it has been just so good. And the, there's more and more improvements coming to this medication. There's gonna be more and more people taking this for sure. It's definitely. Out there. Everyone's gonna have their opinion good, bad, and everything in between. It doesn't matter. You do your research, you talk to your health professional, you do what's right for you. And, that's what I'm doing. And it's been great. I have nothing bad to say about it whatsoever, so I wanted to share that because. I just feel like it's time. It's time for us to start talking about the things that are working and sharing it with other people so that they can make those choices for themselves as well. So that is that. Now, with that being said, some other things that I wanted to end this podcast with. Because I wanna talk about moving into 2026 and the energy that I have and, and I, this GLP one journey has definitely led into this because I do feel more like myself. My energy is better, my focus is better. I have more brain space, more capacity especially now that the puppies bit more of a, in more of our routine. I don't know if it's because my hormones feel balanced now. I am feeling better about myself and my body. I'm not sure, I'm not sure if it's a combination of all these things, but the last month when I, I was thinking about my business and thinking about what I wanna do for, for 2026 and kind of some of the goals that I had for me. I fell into the work that I'm doing right now, which is designing websites in Kajabi for clients who are coaches, course creators, that kind of stuff. I fell into this after leaving the coaching, the online coaching space, and being like a a, a on Instagram all the time and doing all that stuff. When I started going through perimenopause and feeling like absolute garbage and just feeling like I wasn't myself. I got off of all of that because that wasn't helping me at all. And so I fell into just doing done for you services for clients, because it was something I could do. I was good at it. But I didn't really need to be online all the time because I just had clients who were recommending me. And it was kind of just, it was it turned into its own thing. So the last two years, that's what I've been doing and it's been very successful and I'm, I'm very happy with the work that I do and I love it, but I think because I have. I, I don't wanna say, found myself again, or maybe I'm in this new path and maybe I'm, there's a new version of me emerging. But I feel like now that I've got my hormones in check, I don't feel quite as, all over the place. The rollercoaster seems to have come to a stop. I feel good about myself. I am excited about reestablishing my business again in a way that. Not the same way that I used to do it. I don't wanna be an online business coach and do all of that again. But one, this podcast, I really wanna put time and effort into this podcast. I don't know exactly what that looks like. I know it's gonna be topics like this. I don't know a hundred percent, but this is one of the things on when I started mapping out the areas that I really wanted to. Focus on next year. This was definitely one of them because I think this stuff needs to be talked about and I think people are looking for this kind of content, just talking real talk about hormones, business, kids, all that kind of shit. So I'm really excited about doing more of this and I also. Not necessarily wanna get back onto social media and doing a lot of social media stuff. I will be amping up my social media a bit because I do still wanna do the done for you services, but I do, there's a couple courses that I wanna create that will help online entrepreneurs getting started in using software like Kajabi and building online businesses, creating lead magnets, creating online courses and stuff. That's to me. Teaching people how to do those things and the strategies behind those things is always been exciting for me. I've always loved to talk about business. Any of my friends who have businesses and stuff like that, I'm always like, tell me about your business. Like, what are you doing? How are you creating this? What are you doing that I love talking about marketing and how to do all of these things and create strategies. I just didn't like having to do it on social media in order to prove myself, in order to find clients. I don't know. There's something about that I didn't love, but I, I feel like I'm a different person now and I'm coming at it from a different perspective. The reasons why I wanna do these things have changed. I think before I hit this perimenopausal rollercoaster, I was doing things for the wrong reasons. I was trying to be, the a hundred K months and a hundred thousand followers and all that bullshit shit that I hate in the coaching industry. I was part of that for some time, and now I'm a different person. Sure. Everybody wants to make money and do all those things. Yeah. I wanna do this because I really enjoy talking about strategy. I really enjoy talking about midlife. I really enjoy talking about hormones and all the things. I enjoy helping women in this specific area get through all the things, but also create the strategies and do the things for their business.. I just feel like I'm ready to dip my toe back into some of the waters that I used to play in, like going back to live events and maybe doing some speaking. Doing some things that I used to do that I really enjoyed. But not in the same ways that I used to do them. And I think that my brain is different now, is how I describe it. I feel like I'm more ready to do some of those things than I was even before when I was actually doing it. And I think I'm doing it from a much more grounded place. That's the best way to describe it, I just feel like I'm coming at it from a different angle, different perspective, and I'm ready to do some things that I always wanted to do, but I just never could get them to work before. And I do think it's because I was just. I wasn't in the right mindset. I even pulled out a couple of my old books that I loved, like the War of Art and the Quantum Leap Strategy, and I wanna get back into doing some journaling exercises and. I don't know you guys. I don't know who am I, what's happening over here? I'm really excited for 2026, and I hope that by me saying all of this rambling excitement stuff that those of you who are stuck in the place right now of feeling like you just wanna shut everything off because your hormones have made you. Uncertain about who you are, what you want. Maybe you're feeling the, the major mood swings. Maybe you're going through friendship issues. Maybe you just, you don't have the energy and you're tired and you're not sleeping, and you just have, you're just in that chaos place of midlife that if you just keep working on it, just keep trying, just keep talking to doctors. Just keep playing with the hormones. Just keep experimenting with the things, dude. I've been on so many different hormones and different levels and testing things out and trying to get to this place where I feel like I'm finally not even myself again. I feel like I'm this, like better version of myself now, and there are still days. Trust me, if I don't put my hormone patch on, you will know within 24 to 48 hours that that patch isn't on because I will get ragey very quickly. I, I, but I've gotten to a place where I, I feel like I know what I need to keep me moving in a good place where it took me a couple years to get to that spot. And the GLP one has been one of the tools that has helped me get here. It's been the hormones, it's been the estrogen, it's been the progesterone it's been the GLP ones. I did go off the testosterone'cause I feel like that wasn't really doing a lot for me, but it's taken me a lot of trial and error to get to a place where now I feel like my head is screwed on tight again. And now I'm ready to do some things. I'm not making any major promises for 2026, but I will say. I do have new branding. I've got new, I'm doing a photo shoot in January, so I'm gonna have a new website coming soon. I have restructured my offers. I am ready to not fly by the seat of my pants and just get through the day anymore. I'm actually ready to make some goals and to set some targets and some, and to do some bigger things this year into next year and so on. And it's been a long time. Like a long time since I've felt like this. It feels kind of fun, actually. So that is the overall life update. Again, I really just wanna keep coming to this podcast with, it's not gonna be any one specific topic. It's gonna be lots of different things. But I promise you, if you are a woman who's in midlife ish and you have some sort of a business, you've got children, you've got all the things, you will find something in this podcast that you can relate to and hopefully be inspired by or get supported by. And this is my invitation to you to listen, to reflect, to stay connected. You can always find me on Instagram. My business account is I am Shayna Rucker. That's the account where I'll be sharing the podcasts and stuff. If you guys have any questions. About anything I've talked about in here. You can DM me on my Instagram. I am Shayna Rucker. I'm happy to share. I have had a lot of people message me when I shared that GLP one story a little bit on my Instagram and I went back and forth with many people with lots of voice messages. So many to the point that I was confused about who I said what to. But I'm happy to share more. Again, I'm not a professional, a health professional. I'm not any of those kinds of things. This is just my personal experience. Okay guys, that's it for me. I hope you're having a great end to 2025 and I can't wait to share more with you in 2026. Okay, bye for now.