Jeannette Ogden, the force behind the blog and Instagram account Shut The Kale Up, joins Lacy on this episode of the EXPANDED Podcast. Jeannette shares her story with unflinching honesty and grace, covering a wide range of topics including how she made the leap to become an influencer full-time, growing up with an alcoholic mom, climbing out of debt, overcoming body-image issues, her journey to motherhood, and falling in love. She’s such an incredible example of the power of owning your shadow and an expander to anyone on the quest to live a meaningful, healthy, and family-focused life.

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In this episode, we talk about:

• Her Mexican heritage, growing up in CA and spending summers in Guadalajara
• Her mom’s struggle with alcoholism and how she got sober
• The importance of being open and making hard things more acceptable to talk about
• living with her aunt
• Beginning her health journey with wanting to lose weight
• Her experience with disordered eating
• How she got in touch with living and eating intuitively
• How she manifested her partner even though she wasn’t looking for him
• How she knew he was the one
• Her first long-term tumultuous relationship and how she decided to leave
• The programming she grew up with around relationships
• Thinking she wanted to be a teacher
• How she became an influencer
• Wanting to teach people that health doesn’t have to be restrictive
• What she thinks has made her successful
• Staying true to her roots
• Overcoming her shadow around being mexican and stepping into her worth
• Her grandmother advocating for her to have a home birth
• The food and markets in Mexico and cooking
• Getting pregnant
• Her practices when she is stressed
• How she uses exercise to clear her mind
• Her approach to conscious parenting
• Speaking to children like they are adults
• Helping her son live his best life
• Her shadows and insecurities
• Seeing her body as a home to her babies
• What she’s manifesting right now
• Owning who she is and her identity as an entrepreneur
• Her advice for entrepreneurs
• Following her passion
• Her retail job and money fears that held her back
• Getting into debt and how got back on track and paid it off
• Not taking things for granted
• Becoming a yoga instructor
• Pivoting from having IG be her side hustle to her main hustle
• Managing her business and being a stay at home mom
• Balancing online and offline time

Where to find Jeannette:

• Website: www.shutthekaleup.com
• Instagram: @shutthekaleup

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