Episode #13 - Amy Rzepka: Empower Yourself

Preparing you for Life Podcast

Amy Rzpeka is a mom of two, a wife, a professional, and and all around wonderful person. This conversation dives into the importance of taking care of yourself and carving out time to prioritize filling up your own cup of happiness and fulfillment. If you’re not at your best, you can’t be at your best for others in your life. Your relationships will suffer, your work will suffer, and ultimately, your happiness and fulfillment will suffer. Amy goes into a lot of detail about her struggles raising two kids while balancing a professional career, and how she made conscious changes to her life to make it better. Not being a parent, I really found a lot of similarities in Amy’s struggles to the struggles I’ve experienced in my life. I really enjoyed this conversation and I’m hoping you get something out of it. Enjoy! [0:00] Amy’s life as a professional, a mom, being pregnant, fitness background, finding CrossFit, and the stimulus for making BIG changes. [4:50] Filling up your own cup - Taking care of yourself, and prioritizing your life so that you’re better for everything and everyone else in your life. This is the basic theme of the whole conversation… [14:00] Getting perspective in your life and realizing when you’re overstretched. Any what to do when you feel “stuck” in a negative routine. [28:50] Parenting vs. nurturing, and Amy’s interest shifting from being a professional first to wanting to be a Mom first. How she made the transition and how she found balance in her life with the change of mindset. [44:30] More ideas on finding balance in your life, and how to prioritize your life. [58:30] Dealing with adversity with a mindset of overcoming challenge and controlling what you can control. “GOOD.” [1:14:00] Where confidence comes from? Creating a better relationship with success, defining what success means, and how to define it for yourself. [1:28:00] More about filling your own cup (I told you that this was the theme for the conversation) - finding challenges that are worthy of pursuing.