Cue the New You is Back Babbyyyy! Intro to Season 3!

Cueties!!! Ahhh! We are back with Season 3 of the podcast!! It's been so long and in this episode I'll explain why I dipped and what I've been up to. Some major changes are happening with the podcast and I can't wait to see this community and for us to reconnect! Thank you cuetie for being here and listening. 

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Hey, Cueties!. back to season three Cue the New You podcast. If you're new here. Hello. Thank you for joining us. I'm your host, Meritt Brown, and we are here to talk about all things mindset, routines, and habits, All about learning emotional regulation and personal development, and this season is going to be a little bit different. My first season, if you go back and listen to it, it was called Mindset for Meal Times, and I started that back in 2022 I. I don't think I was necessarily ready to start a podcast, but I wanted to. So I did, and I've learned a lot of things along the way. Then the second season, I switched to Cue the New You and that, ended, that season ended abruptly. I was talking about all the things that I wanted to talk about. I was finally. Understanding my voice and point of view and what I wanted to share with you. Then a big life change happened. I just was overwhelmed and under prepared for that change. And so my podcast just kind of Cueuit. But here we are things. Are looking great because I have such a clear vision of what I want to do with this business Cue, the new you, and I'm just so excited to. Be here and share everything. So the big life change that happened was my family and I moved to Valencia, Spain, and y'all, let me tell you, this has been an adventure. We sold our house back in Tennessee in May to a lovely friend and neighbor, they fixed it up and sold it. So Cueuickly because they did such a good job of fixing the house up and I loved seeing the transformation and the process of that. So that was really fun. But I had to pack the entire house, downsize, get rid of stuff y'all, I was putting stuff out on at the end of my driveway for free, and I was like, please. Please somebody help me out and pick all this shit up. And thankfully my neighbors came together. Random people stopped by and took almost everything that people could use. You know, obviously we threw out what needed to throw out and it was such a big task to undergo under undergo, undertake. It was such a big task to do, especially because my husband was working all the time trying to get things set up for his business so he could step away, because obviously he wasn't gonna be there when we moved. And I had the kids and I wanted them to have a great last summer in the US so we were traveling a lot and doing this and that, and on top of that, we had to. Get our two dogs and two cats, all USDA certified. And the wonderful, wonderful vets at Fountain City Vets in Knoxville, Tennessee were lifesavers and they got everything sorted for us and they helped us out so much and I'm so thankful for them. Our friends came together and helped us buy our tickets and. Helped us with getting down to the airport and packing and cleaning and all of this stuff. So it was a busy, busy summer and I just disappeared. I was not on social media much. I stepped away from, life coaching, which I am probably gonna do a whole podcast on that. Later on, and here I am revamping Cue the New You making it more my own and more authentic and more what I want it to be. So thank you for being here. I think the craziest part of this has been. Taking the time to step back and reflect on why I even started on this journey what I've learned and we are gonna dive into all the nitty gritty. I'm so excited to be back doing the podcast and really looking forward to building this community up again and having fun with it. Because I feel like in the first couple of seasons I was very much. Teacher slash life coach minded oriented, and I, not that anything is wrong with that because I do love teaching, but I just like to share and to just talk about things, and I want it to be more of like, I'm your bestie. Or kind of like big sister, although I don't really know how to be a big sister.'cause I'm definitely the youngest in my family. So, I mean, but I am a mom, so there's that. Anyways, this life change, we rolled up to Spain in August. And it was dead ass hot. It was so hot. But you know, I actually love the hotness and humidity, because I grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and then we lived in Charleston, South Carolina for years. And the weather like doesn't bother me, we're right in the. City center and we roll up with 11 big suitcases, three kids, two dogs, and two cats to our lovely apartment and everything worked out so well with getting this apartment. We have lovely realtors. They're two sisters from Lavia and I actually play squash with them. They're really big into sCueuash we met them randomly when my husband and I visited Valencia for the first time, a couple of years ago. So this has been, this move took about three years to say, yes, we're gonna do this, to getting everything sorted and all of that. We were on our way to Ireland to play in the hurling World Games in 2023. So we decided to spend a week in Valencia just to make sure that we liked it. We knew we were gonna move here, but we never even visited. So we came here, spent a week here, fell in love with it immediately, and we were getting ice cream there were, there was this little boy with his parents, and he was speaking Spanish, but he was speaking English to his parents were in front of us ordering, and Rob was like, oh, I wish we, spoke to them just to see if they lived here or if they were visiting and whatnot. But. I like 20 minutes pass and we're enjoying our ice cream walking around. And lo and behold, the couple walks around the building and Rob's like, Rob sees them down the street and he's like, oh, there they are. I'm gonna go talk to them. I was like, okay. So he like runs after them and, he starts chatting with them and they actually, they lived. In Colorado and their son went to immersion school, so English, Spanish school in Colorado since he was like four. So he was fluent in Spanish and he's around our son's age 11 at the time. So we were chatting and they gave us their realtor's names. And it happened to be Linda and Zanda, who we used. We snatched those realtors up because they talked so highly of them. And I'm so happy. I'm so happy that Rob took that chance and just spoke to this random couple on the streets then everything kind of seemed to work out. The only, the biggest hiccup we've had is getting our visa sorted out, which we thank goodness, finally fucking have it. So cheers to that. Okay. I don't want this to be all about Spain. If, if y'all want more Spain content, just let me know because I love to do kind of side podcast about Spain itself. But the move has, like I said, I stepped back from my business and podcast and all of that, and it really has shed light on. Just in the lifestyle change, I think I needed, not that we didn't move because we didn't have a great life, we had such a good life in Knoxville. We had so many good friends, great community. Our kids had friends. They loved it. But we also, but we wanted, well, for me, it is just a lifelong dream to live in Europe. But we also wanted to kind of challenge our kids because we were comfortable, we were too comfortable, and when you're too comfortable, there's not a lot of room for growth, we just want to open up so many opportunities and possibilities. And moments of awe for our kids. So traveling is a big part of why we also moved and we love taking the kids everywhere, even to the little villages outside of Valencia are just amazing and spectacular. There's so much history in Europe, obviously, and we don't get those kinds of. Historical artifacts or ruins in the US because the US is so much younger than Europe it's just been fun watching them adapt and grow and they are all in Spanish schools. We are desperately trying to learn Spanish. Okay. In high school. I said because I just wanted to be different than everybody, I guess. I don't know. But I was like, I don't, I'm not gonna learn Spanish. I'm gonna learn French. So I learned French in high school and then took like three years of French in college. So I knew more French than Spanish before we moved here. But y'all, I am almost on day 1000 of Duolingo, which Duolingo honestly hasn't helped that much, but I took a, an intensive course. For the last four months, and that was so much, so much work. It was two and a half hours, four days a week, and it's just so many new concepts words phrases and grammar that, I feel like I learned so much, but I also learned nothing. So I am out here struggling trying to speak Spanish. Because we want to, you know, integrate into the, into our community and into the culture. The kids have rocked their classes and their school but they're about to go to a new school, hopefully. Fingers crossed, everything works out for that in the fall. Yeah, so that's basically what what I've been doing is last year packing up, saying goodbye, moving. This year I started to reevaluate and kind of revamp my business and. I had a clear vision of what I wanted to do and what I wanted to bring forth, and I'm excited to get this going again. So here's to the intro for season three of Cue, the new You. I just wanna say thank you for everyone who has listened to my podcast. This season is gonna be so much, every season is just gonna get better and better because I am going to be become a better host, and we are looking forward to building a more connected community. So I'm ready for that, and I hope you are too. We're gonna be bringing a lot of, mindset work still and talk about thought loops and thought patterns and how to rewire our brains, how to build confidence, how to. Achieve your goals, how to set goals, how to stick to routines, and how to build new habits and talk about the neuro pathways and all of that. My most popular, podcast episode was I forgot the exact title, but it was in Season one, the 10 Food Rules of Every French Kid. From a book called French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Billon, and I hope I pronounce that name correctly. If you wanna check that out, it's in season one, but I am gonna bring back two just. That concept of mindset for meal times, because I feel like a lot of people I talk to still struggle with that, and it took me such a long time in so many mindset shifts in order to not have food consume my mind, or not tear myself down and tear my body down. Every single day. When you feel good about yourself, I feel like life is just a little bit easier when you learn to love yourself. that's What I want everyone. To walk away with we're gonna do a lot of lessons on self-love and self-care, and I'm just so excited to be back and share this with you. If you ever have any suggestions, podcast suggestions on episodes or Cueuestions or anything like that, then. DM me on Instagram because I want to hear from you. I love hearing from, you. Because I am here to share, and I'm also here to help. So hit me up with any of your suggestions or Cueuestions or struggles. All right. I will see you next week for episode two. I hope you'll have a lovely week, a fun weekend. And remember to take care of yourself. Okay, I'll see y'all later. Okay, bye.