In this episode, Rosie Matus Carrillo, Kim’s lifelong best friend, is a devoted wife, mother, community worker, and a woman shaped by profound family losses, including her sister, father, grandmother, and aunt. Her story is one of quiet resilience, deep compassion, and the kind of strength you only develop when you’ve had to keep going for the people you love.
Press play for a candid conversation on sibling loss, family roles, isolation after death, caregiving through Alzheimer’s, honoring loved ones, holiday triggers, giving back quietly, staying present for your people, and the small rituals that keep memories alive.
Episode Highlights:
07:08 Supporting Grieving Families
10:46 Does Grief Change or Stay the Same?
15:48 Honoring Memories
18:00 How Rosie Chooses to Thrive
22:29 Tips for Grief
28:44 Balancing Tears and Laughter
30:43 Don’t Let Death Take Away Your Life
Quotes:
06:33 “If I can’t live for myself and do for myself, I can’t help and do for others.” —Rosie Matus Carillo
12:57 “Take care of yourself. You’re number one. If I don’t take care of myself, no one else is going to take care of me.” —Rosie Matus Carillo
16:50 “Especially the holidays—It gets hard. It doesn’t get easier at all… But I gotta live. I can’t give up.” —Rosie Matus Carillo
22:46 “Talk to whoever you need to talk to. You just need to talk sometimes to get it off your chest just to get through that day.” —Rosie Matus Carillo
32:19 “If they want to tell you, they’ll tell you. —Kimberly Hubenette
32:19 “That’s what a lot of people might need— just there.” —Kimberly Hubenette
Meet Rosie:
Transcript:
Kimberly Hubenette: Welcome to the Live, Love, Survive, Thrive! Podcast that helps you embrace life’s challenges, grow through adversity, and discover your true potential. I’m your host, Dr. Kimberly Hubenette, anti aging, dentist, widow, author and inspirational coach. I live by the philosophy of constant and never ending improvement, and I’m here to help you do the same. Each week, we’ll dive into real conversations, powerful stories and practical tools to help you heal, grow and thrive. Whether you’re rebuilding after loss or ready to step into a more purposeful life, this space is for you. Let’s grow, evolve and thrive together.
Hi everybody. I’m Dr. Kimberly Hubenette, and welcome to my podcast, Live, Love, Survive, Thrive!. Today, I have the most wonderful guest on my show. Her name is Rosie, and I call her Rosie Matus because I’ve known her for so long. But she is married. Her name’s Rosie Carillo now, and we grew up in this little town called El Centro. And basically, she’s been one of my best friends ever since. Well, after high school, because we met after high school. A year after you went to college, and even though we were in the same high school class, we just never knew each other. We knew about each other. But once we met, it was like, forget everything else. We were like, if you can call friends soulmates, we are that. I could call her any time, and she can call me as well. So when I was starting this podcast, I thought, hey, I’m going to ask Rosie to be on my podcast. And you never know, she might become a regular, because she’s had a lot of things, challenges with life. Let’s say hello to Rosie. Hi, Rosie.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Hello Kim. As Kim said, I am Rosie Matus Carillo, and I refer to Dr. Kimberly Hubenette as Kim Quan. Always have, and always will know Kim for many, many years. Again, one of my best friends says that we can call each other any time of the day, night. She still calls me every New Year’s morning after midnight no matter what state, country, anywhere in the world that she’s at. Or whoever she’s with, she will always stop and call me. And believe me, she will call me at 3:00 o’clock in the morning too. She’s just a wonderful, wonderful person. As she says, we are meant to meet after high school, and we have stayed friends, and been friends since then. I had the honor of being her maid of honor in her wedding. We’re just so close. My kids love her. They call her aunt. Love her. My family loves her. We all love her.
Kimberly Hubenette: And when I talked to you about my podcast and my idea about it, there was a saying that you said about death. I thought that was a really good thing, because it keeps it alive. And you say it just like how you normally are. So what was it that you were telling me when I said–
Rosie Matus Carillo: Does it suck? It does. 100%. And that’s the way I speak. And they say things, I can’t sugarcoat any of those things, and it just sucks in every way possible. Nothing feels good about it, and nothing can make you feel better about it. It’s just something you live with every day of your life. You improve your life around it, but it’s still there. And it doesn’t disappear, because it is gone forever. It’s death, it’s final, other than their spirit.
Kimberly Hubenette: You said, life continues after death. Can you tell me a little bit about your experience with your loved ones? Tell me their names, the loved ones that you’ve lost.
Rosie Matus Carillo: I’m so emotional. I’m getting emotional just thinking about it. The most recent loss that we had was five years ago. There was my sister, my best friend, closer than you. And you knew that.
Kimberly Hubenette: You guys were almost looking like twins.
Rosie Matus Carillo: We were a year and 13 days apart. Her name is Billie Matus. She was 50 years old when she died of cancer. It was liver cancer. She was not a drinker. Did she have her occasional drink? Yes, a social drinker. Nothing like that. It happened at the tail end of covid. Couldn’t be visiting her in the hospital and what not. But she was one of my everythings, that I really said everything or told her my deepest secrets. We talked to each other every single day, every day, and it was hard. It was hard for her husband and for her son who was 14 years old when she passed, but I felt that I had to be stronger than them because I couldn’t imagine losing my spouse like you did, and I had to pick up all the pieces. Help organize everything going on. What comes with dying at a funeral, or cremation, or the celebration of life, get together, all those things, and it just happens. And again, I just have to continue living for myself. Number one, because the thing I tried to live with is if I can’t live for myself and do for myself, I can’t help and do for others. They needed you. They needed me, and I tried to take care of myself. Put me number one. It sounds selfish sometimes. But again, I need to take care of myself, because no one can take care of me the way anybody else can. So I just continue living. And when my sister wants me to be moping around doing nothing, just thinking about that, for sure, she wouldn’t. I would be useless to everybody else, and it would just take me.
Kimberly Hubenette: What were the moments like right after? You said her husband, Isaac, and her son Matthew needed you. Did they isolate themselves?
Rosie Matus Carillo: They really did isolate themselves, which I totally get because I felt the same way. Anything reminded them, whatever show came on TV. My brother in law couldn’t even get rid of his car because it was her car, and he felt that he was just giving her up and giving things away. Couldn’t clean the closet. And I believe that he hasn’t cleaned the closet to this day, and that’s been five years. And sometimes, I think it’s harder on men than it is for women. But how true is that? I don’t know, since I haven’t experienced that. But anytime he needs us, he’s called us, or calls me and my nephew, Matthew, who was 14 at the time. A 14 year old who barely spoke to anybody. Anyways, they get in their own little world when you’re a teenager. But sometimes, alas, he would call and just say, I need to be with you. I don’t know what to do. But it wasn’t a good experience for them at all. Not that it’s a good experience for anybody at all, no matter what age they are.
Kimberly Hubenette: Your dad passed away, and your aunt, you said. How many years has that happened? And your nana
Rosie Matus Carillo: My dad died in 2004. He was 55 years old. He died of multiple myeloma cancer, and that was shocking. Again, I didn’t take the burden of it. It weighed a lot in the sense of, I didn’t feel I needed to be as strong and take control of things. One of my brothers did that, and he did a good job. I’m so grateful for that. And then my grandmother died in 2015, and was very close to my Nana. She was 92 years old, and she died of natural causes. She basically outlived three of her children. And then my aunt died in three years, 2018. Then my sister in 2021, and I did take charge for my grandmother’s funeral and things like that. And again, because I felt I was the strongest, and I’m a little of a control freak.
Kimberly Hubenette: You like to pay attention to detail, that’s for sure.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Oh, for sure. I do like that. And it was the same with my aunt and my sister. Going back to my sister, she had told me a lot of things that she wanted when she died, that she couldn’t talk to her husband about because he would not accept it. So the day she died, the mortuary called and said about the funeral, and I had to tell him that she didn’t want to be buried. She wanted to be cremated. I said, she couldn’t. She tried to talk to you about it, but you wouldn’t allow it. So I knew all these details that nobody else knew, and that’s what she wanted. And she would tell me, don’t let people wear certain clothes to my funeral.
Kimberly Hubenette: You can laugh about it, that this is what she wanted.
Rosie Matus Carillo: She gave me lots of little details on what she did and didn’t want. And if someone shows up, you better take them out.
Kimberly Hubenette: Okay. These are four people. As this happened, do you think you got stronger after the fourth one? Or does grief journey stay the same for every single time you have a loss?
Rosie Matus Carillo: Not that it gets easier. It’s just that everybody’s a little different, because I loved my sister differently than I loved my grandmother, my aunt, and my dad. Each of them I love differently. And again, not that any of them were less than the other, but some of them were easier than others that I could just say, okay, suck it up, let’s do it and whatnot. And they knew that was my way of doing and saying things. And again, control freak here and things were going to get done, because I couldn’t sit and mope, and cry in a corner because nothing would get done. I felt nothing would get done. That’s what it was.
Kimberly Hubenette: I have a question for you about something, what’s something that makes you feel alive right now?
Rosie Matus Carillo: My husband, my children, my grandchild, and our soon to be new grandchild. That’s what keeps me alive and going because I have their support. I have their support, and I am grateful for my husband. Love him to death. He has my back. And sometimes, he’ll look at me and just say, what’s wrong? What do you need? And I’m like, I needed a trip to Kim’s.
Kimberly Hubenette: You come visit me. My doors are always open to you, even if I’m not home.
Rosie Matus Carillo: And that’s literally the truth. I’ve visited you before and you weren’t home, and I was there at your house. It’s basically like your house is my house.
Kimberly Hubenette: Is there something that carries you through difficult seasons of life? Is there a mantra or a quote that you always like to say or do, or have, or speak about?
Rosie Matus Carillo: I just say, take care of yourself. Take care of yourself. Take your number one. You’re number one. I’m number one. And not that my children and my husband aren’t number ones, or my mother. I’m number one. And if I don’t take care of myself, no one else is going to take care of me. And again, does it sound selfish? Sometimes, maybe a little. But again, you’re not going to worry. You’re not living in my shoes. I have to take care of myself. I have to take care of myself.
Kimberly Hubenette: I know that when we talked about something that I never knew about you before, and you told this to me, I learned something new about you today, and it was about what you do during Thanksgiving and what you do with to help the world.
Rosie Matus Carillo: My husband and I, I would say, we’re very fortunate. And a lot of people don’t know this about us. We donate meals to underprivileged families, friends that work at different school districts, and always ask them, is there any family we could donate to? Here’s five meals. This means complete meals for Thanksgiving. We give it to the locals. Not just to the locals. I don’t wanna call it an orphanage. It’s like where the foster children go. And we always call them, and I shouldn’t say always. Every few years, we pick different years, and we always ask the oldest children what their needs and wants are. Because no matter what, 14 years old, 15 years old, they’re still kids, and they still want different things. And we get them what they want, what kid doesn’t want. That new pair of Nike shoes, or the newest. Maybe not a phone, but the newest tech thing. And it’s not their fault. They’re in the system. We try to give them what they want. Because usually, people think of the little young kids. So we try to do that, and we try to help in the community. Maybe not like the way out there, and we don’t announce it. I don’t put it on social media, and I don’t need people to do things like that. And we do little things. If we’re in a restaurant and see somebody sitting there, I’ll say, we want to pay for dinner there. May they have had the best steak dinner on the menu or just a cup of coffee, and it’s just something we always do. And that’s what makes us feel better again. We’re very fortunate in life. Our children are fortunate, and we have enough to share.
Kimberly Hubenette: And you don’t get anything for yourself.
Rosie Matus Carillo: That’s it. And like you said, you didn’t know I did that. I don’t even know how it came up. But we were talking about it, and you’re like, I didn’t know that.
Kimberly Hubenette: Back to the devastation and loss and what you do to memorialize Billie and your dad, your grandma and your aunt, do you have a special song or something, a TV show or something like that that makes you think about them or memorializes them and have happy thoughts, or something?
Rosie Matus Carillo: Again, we’re only a year, 13 days apart, so we grew up together. We love the 80s, everything about the 80s. She loved the Golden Girls show. On the anniversary of her death, I like to drink her favorite drink, a Paloma.
Kimberly Hubenette: I remember that. We were there together on one of her anniversaries.
Rosie Matus Carillo: She used to like something called Chicken Ella Liz from one of the local restaurants here. So I make my version of chicken ella liz to celebrate her, especially during the holidays. It gets hard. It doesn’t get easier at all.
Kimberly Hubenette: The holidays are coming up.
Rosie Matus Carillo: My husband’s setting up right now. Not even Thanksgiving, and he’s setting up Christmas trees and Christmas music on. But there’s times that I just feel bad. He said, I wish my sister was here. But then I say, but I gotta live. I can’t give up. I love Christmas. My favorite holidays are my Christmas and my birthday.
Kimberly Hubenette: And you have your girls.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Valerie, Tiff, Jill and Isis. The oldest one is 32, and youngest one is 16, and a five year old granddaughter. No boys in our family. Maybe our next grandchild will be a boy. We’re not sure yet. We don’t know, but yes. And even though two of them live far away from here, I’d love for them to be home every holiday. When they can’t come home from the holidays or choose not to come home, oh, that kills us. But I make sure that we send wrapped gifts and whatnot, and they appreciate that.
Kimberly Hubenette: My podcast name is Live, Love, Survive, Thrive!, how do you choose to live, love, survive and thrive?
Rosie Matus Carillo: I’m not as active as you. I know you want to go walking and see the world. I just like being out there. I like getting with people and doing this. Actually, this is my first podcast, and I’m loving every moment of it. It’s kind of like free therapy.
Kimberly Hubenette: Do you want to give me advice?
Rosie Matus Carillo: I just try never to keep things bottled up. When I feel something, I say it sometimes, does it come out the wrong way? Yes, it does. But I do it from a good place. I don’t feel that I’m doing it to be malicious or be mean about anything. And if I do, I’m sorry. It wasn’t meant like that. But if you know me well enough, you’re gonna say, she didn’t say it that way. She didn’t say it that way. Or it wasn’t meant that way. Like me saying, Kim, you have a paper or something in your hair or whatever. Oh, God, why is she checking me out? Some people just think like that. I’m like, no, I’m really telling you. Because I don’t know, I’m just like that. But I just live. I get up, I go to work even though there’s days that I just want to stay in bed and say, why me? God, why me? But if I do, that’s gonna end up being a second day in bed or a third day in bed, I say, let’s just go. Let’s just move on. That’s what I do to live and survive.
Kimberly Hubenette: And when my Mark died, you were there for me.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Yeah, that was one of the things I’ve been thinking about lately. I remember getting that phone call from you and I knew it. But a few days before he had passed that you called, and that he wanted to talk to us, oh, man, it brought my husband down. It brought Ramon down. It kicked his butt. Ramon loved Mark. He loved the way he talked to you and just said, Kim, you’re not doing things like that. That’s the wrong way. Just used to laugh because we know you’re a woman with a mind of your own.
Kimberly Hubenette: And when I said I was doing this, you probably rolled your eyes like, oh, my god, what is she doing?
Rosie Matus Carillo: And then Mark would stop it, and we would just laugh and say, man, these two are made for each other.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Yeah. He was the one that could tell me to do anything, and I would listen.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Yes. My favorite story is about when you guys met, and then we were at a club dancing, and you were dancing, and he stood, he was standing next to me. I don’t know why he wasn’t dancing. She’s the most beautiful woman in the whole wide world. And I just looked at him, huh? This guy’s in love. I said, this guy’s whooped. That’s what I thought. That’s my favorite thing to say. We loved Mark. I loved him from the day I met him.
Kimberly Hubenette: Where’s Ramon? He’s supposed to come say hi on our podcast. Can he come say hi?
Rosie Matus Carillo: Come here real quick. Come say hi.
Kimberly Hubenette: He’s a shy guy.
Rosie Matus Carillo: He’s nothing like me. Come say hi at the podcast. His signature white t-shirt. We call it his uniform. That’s all he ever wears, a white t-shirt. Do you have any words of wisdom for us? He said, just stay positive, and he walked away. That’s his whole three seconds of fame, and he’ll never do it again.
Kimberly Hubenette: Are there any words of wisdom to our listeners that you would like to say to them and encourage them to keep on listening? Or any little thing that might help somebody that’s going through their grief journey.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Talk to whoever you need to talk to. May it be a therapist, may it be your husband, may it be the neighbor, may it be the stranger in the park, or your best friend. You just need to talk sometimes to get it off your chest, just to get through that day. And if it’s every day, do it every day. And don’t be embarrassed or think about it, I’m wasting their time. No, you’re not. Even though sometimes I might not reach out to you, Kim, you know that I’m here. You know that I’m here. And people aren’t always going to say, do you need something? You just need to call them, and they will drop everything. People don’t believe that. Sometimes, it’s hard because sometimes, I don’t believe it. Sometimes, I don’t want to call Kim for instance and say, Kim, I’m just going through all this and whatever, because I think she might be busy. But no, she isn’t. The other day, I called her early in the morning. Monday morning, I think, because I had a dream about Mrs. Quan, her mom. And she was available right away, and not because she knew it was about her mom. She answered the phone saying, why are you calling me so early in the morning? What’s really going on? Usually, we’ll text each other in the middle of the night. You know what’s going on. Happy birthday. Did you know this happened? Or whatever it is, reach out to whoever. If you need to go for a walk just to clear your mind, take a walk. In Kim’s case, go deep sea fishing and catch 25 pounds or 80 pound fish, or whatever. Or do all that to keep things off your mind and things like that. Me, I’m easy. I could just start looking things up on the internet. Or I just say, Rosie, clear your brain and do something else. Do something productive. Clean the kitchen or wash clothes. Keep on going, do not bring yourself down. And one of my therapists did say, you’re pretty good at doing this. I said, but it’s hard. She says, it is hard.
Kimberly Hubenette: You have a therapist, right?
Rosie Matus Carillo: Now, I did have a therapist, and I would talk to her once a week. Not just about death, but about family, things and whatnot. We don’t have a perfect family. Just little things like my mother’s going through. She’s in the first stages of Alzheimer’s, and that talks about live, love and survive. My sister dying really kicked my mom. That brought my mom down. And the truth is, they say you shouldn’t die before your children, that really got my mom. That brought my mom down. And I’m not saying my mom wouldn’t have gotten Alzheimer’s, but my mom’s 76 years old. Before my sister died, my mother was a type that would be in her car halfway up north and call from a gas station and say, oh, I forgot to tell you I’m coming up to Salinas to go visit your aunt. You said anything. She’s like, I kind of forgot that. After my sister died, she was in a daze. She went downhill so fast, and that hurts my heart too. And thank God for one of my brothers, he’s taking care of my mom. He does an excellent job because he knows, and we’ve talked about it. I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t work. I couldn’t take care of my family and take care of my mother. I could not do it because I thought it would break me. And it’s not because I don’t want to, I just couldn’t do it. And it’s hard. It’s very hard. You took care of your husband and worked, and still took care of your home. It’s hard work, but it brought my mother, and she did try and do things, but she couldn’t function. It really kicked her down. I don’t think she saw a therapist. Her doctor gave her something just to help her brain a little. But again, it may just have happened at the exact time she was diagnosed, that her daughter died, and it’s a toll on all of us.
Kimberly Hubenette: But you’re keeping her going. She loves to come to your house.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Oh, she does. She likes coming to my house to have a cup of coffee.
Kimberly Hubenette: You look close enough that she can come by.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Yes, for sure. I send her something she likes, or she’ll call me. She’s like, do you think you want to go to Starbucks and buy me something cute? But this is hard. It sucks. And like I said before, death sucks. It sucks 1,000%. I would sometimes say a hundred, but a thousand, it sucks, and it hurts. But after that, I take care of myself, especially after a sister and a brother dying . I’m sorry, my dad is dying from cancer. I’m checking myself for everything because I think they were young. My sister was 50, and my dad was 55 when they passed. That’s pretty young. And I’m 56.
Kimberly Hubenette: One thing I love about you is that you can laugh and cry in the same–
Rosie Matus Carillo: Really and truly, I can. My ugly cry. My sister would always say, your ugly cry. Your ugly cry.
Kimberly Hubenette: But you are full of life still.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Oh, I am. 100%. I want to live forever and ever. And is that going to happen? No. Well, maybe because my Nana did die when she was 92 years old. There you go.
Kimberly Hubenette: There for your kids, your family, and your husband, right?
Rosie Matus Carillo: Exactly. Like I said, the closest person to me was my sister. It’s funny, because up to this day, people will see me and they say, hey, Billie. And I said, I’m the other one. I’m Rosie. Because they were so used to seeing us together all the time. Yeah, it was all Rosie and Billie. Rosie and Billie, and one of my sisters. She favors Billie a lot. Oh, my gosh, she favors her so much. My sister, I just look at her and I’m like, oh, my God. It’s like looking at Billie. They don’t act the same. Certain times, I’m like, man, that’s Billie. I call my sisters when I need them on certain things. I have another sister, Pat. Call her, and talk about little things or whatnot. But basically, we help each other when we need to.
Kimberly Hubenette: You say you’re the rock in the family.
Rosie Matus Carillo: I don’t think I am. I feel my siblings are extremely strong. We’re all control freaks on certain things. But we’re control freaks in the sense of, I can take care of me, and I could take care of my family. But again, we’re very independent, I should say. Maybe that’s what it is.
Kimberly Hubenette: And you’re the oldest, right?
Rosie Matus Carillo: I’m the oldest.
Kimberly Hubenette: And they look up to you, I think.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Maybe that’s probably it. I don’t know. But again, everybody’s so independent, and they take care of themselves. We’re not needy, and we’re just there. Right now, if I hang up with you, I can call one of them and say, I need this right now.
Kimberly Hubenette: That’s what I love about you and your family, you connect so well.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Your family’s the same way. I could probably call one of your siblings right now, or your dad and say, I mean this. Okay Rosie, just let me know. Again, that’s probably why we connected. And we didn’t know each other in high school. We knew of each other, like you said, but we didn’t know each other. Your mother loved me from day one because I always remember her saying, where have you been? Why has she never brought you home? So I just try to help, and be there for people. Again, when somebody dies in their family or whatnot, I always say to them, if I send them a text or I call them, I said, there’s nothing I can say to you that’s going to make you feel better, but I just want you to know that I’m here. Not one thing is going to change, because you’re still hurting. I said, I just don’t know what to say, but I’m thinking of you. Because sometimes, everything happens in that very moment. You just think it starts getting so overwhelming. Like I’m getting all these phone calls, and not that we don’t appreciate them, because we do. But sometimes, you just don’t want to hear it. You don’t want to call and talk to people for 30 minutes and explain what happened, what’s going on. When people die and I find out, I shoot them a text, or I call them or send them a card. I’ll never ask what went on, and this and that, unless it’s like you. And if they want to tell you. They’ll tell you. But I never asked them. I just say, if you need me, I’m here, and don’t hesitate. And that’s what a lot of people might need, and they do. Sometimes, I like being in my bedroom sleeping. Or just there in my room, you here in my family room. I’m a happy camper. She’s here if I need to yell, oh, whatnot. But I just try and live how I can. And again, I can’t let those deaths affect me in the sense that it takes away my life and my family’s life. So we try to live every day. Like we’re going to the rodeo tonight.
Kimberly Hubenette: I totally appreciate that you were open to come on my podcast and talk about your life, laugh, cry and joke with me and my listeners. Thank you so much.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Welcome. I would do anything for you in the world. I’m jumping on a plane right now, but I’m going to the rodeo. I would jump on a plane and head to Santa Rosa right now just to go see you, because I love it over there. This is so great. I was nervous to do this. I don’t ever put myself out there, even though I always say, I want to be on YouTube famous or Tik Tok famous, but I still don’t do it.
Kimberly Hubenette: Well, you never know. I might have you on my podcast again, and we can interview people together. We have fun like that, right? You never might not have heard the last from Rosie Carillo.
Rosie Matus Carillo: I might be back. And again, I’m very open. Let your listeners know, this took a lot for me to do. I sometimes have a trucker’s mouth, and I can say some words that shouldn’t be used. But this is fun. And again, maybe I’ll become famous this way.
Kimberly Hubenette: So this is Dr. Kimberly Hubenette, and you are Rosie Matus Carillo. If you loved listening to our podcast today, keep it alive by hearing from us. I’m here every month. Sometimes a little bit more. Listen to our podcast of Live, Love, Survive, Thrive!. Until the next episode. Signing off.
Rosie Matus Carillo: Bye. It was great.
Kimberly Hubenette: Thank you for joining me on this episode of Live, Love, Survive, Thrive! I hope our time together has inspired you to embrace life’s challenges, find the courage to overcome obstacles, and create a life filled with love, purpose and fulfillment. If you’ve enjoyed today’s episode, please take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast. Your feedback means the world to me, and to help us continue to bring you stories and tools to empower your journey. And if you have a story of resilience, transformation or thriving after adversity, I’d love to hear from you. Reach out to me directly at livelovesurvivethrive@gmail.com. You never know, your story might just be the inspiration someone else needs to hear.
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