@Krista Brea She really is, and does! I’m so glad to be acquainted with her!

@Gina Trigo Anytime, love!! 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Congratulations!!

@Krista Brea I appreciate you!! 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

What’s funny is, the book it picked for me is a book that’s been sitting in my Audible account for 3 years now…I started listening to it TODAY. I see that others were told to read it too. Shermnae, I actually sat with this one for a minute, because I didn’t want to give you a generic Atomic Habits / Girl, Wash Your Face type recommendation. 😂 If I were choosing one book for the exact season of life you’re in right now, I would give you: The Mountain Is You — Brianna Wiest The subtitle is Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery, but I don’t want the word self-sabotage to make you think I’m saying you’ve created the circumstances you’re dealing with. I’m not. The book is about recognizing the internal patterns we develop while surviving one version of our lives—and realizing those same patterns sometimes can’t accompany us into the next one. Wiest writes about conflicting needs, emotional intelligence, resilience, releasing old experiences, and learning to behave as the person you’re becoming rather than continuing to organize your life around who you’ve been. And that is why I picked it for you. 5 reasons I think you need to read it now 1. You’re not simply changing careers. You’re separating your identity from a life you spent decades building. Dentistry wasn’t just employment for you. It was education, sacrifice, achievement, status, income, expertise—and a huge piece of the answer to “Who is Shermnae?” Now you’re building an identity that includes strategist, entrepreneur, AI educator, consultant, creator, coach—and you’re doing it before the external evidence has fully caught up. That’s a psychologically strange place to live. One of the central ideas of The Mountain Is You is learning to operate as your future self rather than repeatedly returning to an identity you’ve outgrown. And I think you’re standing right in that gap between: “I know who I was.” and “I can see who I’m becoming, but my life hasn’t completely caught up yet.” 2. You have spent a LOT of your life believing the answer is to work harder.

@Krista Brea Oh wow…see I’ve never read it but you just let me know it’s probably okay that it’s not on the top of my list!