Just Women Talking Shit
Just Women Talking Shit is your go-to self-help podcast for real talk on personal & spiritual growth. Hosted by Jacquelynn Cotten, personal evolution mentor & founder of Spiritual Support System, this podcast features juicy interviews with badass, one-of-a-kind women. We dive deep into the good 💩, bad 💩, weird 💩, & life 💩, offering insights & inspiration to help you live a more authentic, fulfilled life. Join us for relatable stories, expert advice, & practical tips on overcoming challenges, building resilience, & embracing your true self. Tune in & start your journey towards personal evolution today!
Just Women Talking Shit
Smoke Sessions and Life Updates: Campers, Coaching, and Creating Content
What happens when life forces you to take a hard look at what really matters? Sometimes it takes an extreme situation to push you toward an authentic path.
After watching my daughter become the target of cruel bullying about her late father, I made the decision many parents dream of but few execute - pulling her from school to create a life on our own terms. Combined with my recent bipolar diagnosis, this wake-up call inspired the purchase of a camper and a journey to the beautiful Ozarks that would change our perspective on what life could be.
My coaching philosophy of "getting paid to exist" comes to life through stories from the road. It's not about passive income or trendy hustle culture - it's about aligning your income with activities you would do regardless of financial compensation. Throughout this raw conversation, I share how capturing authentic content for clients (like documenting a beautiful Reiki session between my client and my daughter) represents the antidote to the overly curated social media landscape we're drowning in.
The episode culminates with my exciting announcement: joining She Heals the World as their newest business coach, a globally recognized organization with 15 years in the coaching industry. This opportunity validates my unconventional approach and opens doors to help more women build businesses aligned with their authentic selves.
If you're tired of curated content and craving authenticity in your life and business, this episode offers both inspiration and practical insights. Share this episode with a friend who needs permission to create a life and business that feels aligned with their true self!
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hello all my beautiful people. Jacqueline, here we're gonna do a smoke. I mean, shoot this. It's been a minute since I've done one of these. I can't even say it. Shoot the shit and smoke sesh, and I'll probably repurpose it as a podcast episode because I need to put one of those out tomorrow. But hey, how the fuck are you?
Speaker 1:So I just got back from let's see thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, got back monday, so I was gone for five days, went to the ozarks, took our camper I bought also just recently, found out that I'm most likely bipolar, so this large purchase. I don't know where it makes sense now, but back in january I bought brand new 2025 gulfstream 17 bh. If you know anything about campers, then all of that matters. So I bought it shortly after. I decided I was taking my daughter out of school and going to homeschool her. Because, let me tell you something, kids at school and even teachers at school these days complete assholes. I don't know what it's like where you're at, but they're complete assholes and it feels like where I'm at is like a cookie cutter. We all need to be the same, and she's definitely not the same. I'm not the same. I was picked on a lot as a kid too, so it makes sense. But the difference is that she's got a mom who is super present and is able to see how her mental health was suffering from it. So in 2020, her dad passed away and it was really fucking suddenly. So she was seven then and they were best friends, absolute best friends. She was a daddy's girl, all the things right. So navigating this has been super. It's been hard, it's been interesting, all those things right. But I drew the line whenever she started telling me that kids are making fun of her, making jokes about her dad being dead, calling her like a grave baby and all this weird shit.
Speaker 1:So I can't remember the exact date I took her out, but a lot of people told me go to the school, talk to the school advocate. What are they going to do? They're not going to do shit Because from my experience in being in grade school because I was the weird kid, I was definitely the quiet kid. My family had a bad reputation, so I think people just figured I was going to be the same, and it has been the driving force as to why I have dove so deeply into things like neuroscience, neuroplasticity, personal development, hypnosis, spirituality, all those things right Because I didn't want to be like everybody else. I wanted to decide for myself who I got to be, and didn't know I had mental illness at the time.
Speaker 1:But all of these things that I personally went through as a child, as a teenager, adolescent years, I truly feel like prepared me to be able to identify when my daughter or even my son or my step-sons were struggling with that, and so it was really a no-brainer for me whenever it started getting to where she was staying, super depressed, not looking forward to going to school anymore, stuff like that it was a no brainer for me to just yank her out Right, and part of that was like you know what? I'm just going to make this decision. Nobody's going to tell me what to do, and I'm going to. I'm going to raise my babies the way I always dreamt of raising them, and that was being able to, if need be, homeschool and this shirt swallows me up I just realized how big it is but be able to live life on my terms. So part of that was probably a bipolar episode where I just said I got to have a camper and it all magically came together to where I bought this camper and we just took our first trip.
Speaker 1:So let me tell you about this trip. We went to the Ozarks. I'll rewind a tad bit. Why do we go to the Ozarks? I have a client who lives in and around the Ozarks and I flew to see her last summer and we did some in-person work. I filmed content, stuff like that, and we smoked a bunch of blunts and we got on their I would call it a small yacht I don't know if we can call it a yacht, but nicer than anything I've ever been on. So we went on this boat and I fell in love with the Ozarks, absolutely fucking in love with the Ozarks. So it was a no brainer when Emma said you should come and you should bring your camper and bring your kids. So I brought my two kids.
Speaker 1:I say my two kids because my step sons are not my bio babies, I call mine bio babies and they're my bonus babies, right, so that? And the camper only sleeps, I think technically, one, two, three, five I feel you could do more than that because I would say this has been our littlest and I could sleep. That's three. And then, honestly, the bunks for some of our two of his sons are pretty small, so I feel like they could sleep together if they really wanted to. Well, they wouldn't even have to sleep on the bunk. The table, the dinette, turns into a bed, which is pretty big in my opinion. So I feel like we could sleep everybody. But it was just like that's. Pretty much all we're gonna be doing is sleeping in there.
Speaker 1:But also, this trip was more so for me to get a reset mentally and be able to connect with my kids. I'm gonna take a couple more posts of this and we're gonna be done, because I told myself I was cutting back. So we went, because I met her last summer and we had such a great time. I was like I cannot wait to come back. And then we were on one of our one-on-one calls here recently Well, I guess about a month ago. So Emma and I were on one of our one-on-one calls because I'm a business coach and I'm a damn good coach, but you can only do so much through these videos, right? So we had this idea Let me come up. I'll stay for close to a week and it would be really beautiful to be able to capture you in your element and do a little bit more than creating content, because I feel like when you are creating content and it's curated, let's just be real you're planning it all out and you don't get to just exist, which is my whole brand's mission is to help people get paid to exist.
Speaker 1:Whole brand's mission is to help people get paid to exist and with getting paid to exist, we take things into consideration like your mental health, your trauma, your overall vision for a lifestyle. All these things matter. We play on your strengths, right? There's just a lot that goes into getting paid to exist, because getting paid to exist means that you're doing more than working. You're doing something that you love. You would be doing it anyway. If money wasn't a thing, you'd be doing it anyway. If it is part of your life, that's getting paid to exist. So it's not something where you dread it every day. It's not something where you hate clocking in. You have more good days than bad when it comes to your brand. That's getting paid to exist. This comes in the form of things like for her, it's turning their ranch a little part of the ranch turning it into a healing center, and so that would allow her to get paid to exist, because she'd wake up every day doing what she loves getting to do Reiki with her horse. So that's what we're working on right now.
Speaker 1:But I think it's really important to be able to capture things through the lens of a person who is watching you. So that's what we did, and I don't know if you saw the video and if you're listening to this, because I already just decided in my head this is going to be a podcast episode. So get ready. If you pop on here and ask me any questions, I'm going to answer them live and it will be in the episode. But I had this idea I want to just film you while we're hanging out, and most of the time she didn't even know she was being filmed. But the most beautiful part that you guys have seen so far was the preview, or the sneak peek that I created. And if you're listening to the podcast episode, go to my Instagram at Jacqueline Cotton and you'll see it.
Speaker 1:But I got to capture Emma do a Reiki session and a deep meditation with my daughter. My daughter is 12 years old. My daughter wanted to do this. We had a full discussion. We led up to it to make sure that it was something she wanted to do and she felt she would benefit from, and she made a very adult decision to go through an energy healing session and it was really beautiful. I got to watch it as her mom, but I also got to film it and, oh my gosh, so freaking cool. But that's what we went up there for me to create content, capture, capture, content and for some of my clients, I create it for them too. This is more of the done for you side of my business coaching. So my company is called Cotton Coaching and Content and I don't talk about that enough.
Speaker 1:That's what I do. I coach, business coach, and with that, frankly, comes a lot of fucking life coaching too. However, I love it and even when I'm not up here talking about it all the time, it's rare that I just don't have any clients. I always have clients within the past couple of years, whether it be content clients or coaching clients, I always have clients. So I'm blessed to be able to say that I have that. But I want to talk more on the coaching and the content side too.
Speaker 1:Everyone tends to think that I have really great content and one of the things that makes my content so good and helps it stand out and why I claim and have had people call me like a digital disruptor. Even if I don't have a lot of followers, I press a lot of buttons but I also have helped quite a few people through. But I also have helped quite a few people through my content because it is so unfiltered. So that's what helps me stand out. But with my clients, I'm able to get to know these people and then help them develop their brand's voice, the brand's vibe, and I got to do that. I got to do that on this trip, got to pretty much experience what my dream life would be being able to live there for a few days in my camper, going back and forth between the camper and her house because she's so kind and also I just love hanging out with her and I fell asleep on their couch a couple times. But I got to experience what it is that I'm working towards.
Speaker 1:Being there is exactly what I'm working towards. I want acreage and I want to be able to, every day I wake up without an alarm, just my body be so in tune with my farm that I'm just up in the morning, rise and shine. I want to be able to look out while I'm making a pot of coffee or French. I like French press Don't judge me while I'm making my coffee to be able to look out and just see rolling hills and cattle, and I want to be able to go out and feed my chickens every day, and so I kind of like getting to spend that time there. Uh, be the opportunity to get a taste of it. You know what I mean. So it wasn't just all work. Um, that's what I love about the connections that I do form, and I don't have a lot of clients like this. Clients are like we get along and I love them and they love me. But then there are those clients at the deeper level. It's like a spiritual connection and this is one of those connections. My other connection is my friend, katie, and she started as a client and she's now one of my. I would say these two are my best friends, and so it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:If you've not yet been to the Ozarks like Arkansas is wonderful, so beautiful. Missouri is wonderful. Missouri is recreational for those that like cannabis, so there's that. But it was just a wonderful trip getting to like what it would be like a day in that life, or, in our case, four, four or five days in that life and what was really cool was so my daughter did the reiki session, right, that's who you saw on the table in that video. If you haven't watched it yet and that's what I was trying to tell y'all earlier is, if you're listening to this episode, then just go to jacqueline cotton on Instagram and you'll see there's a video and the thumbnail is going to be of my client, emma and her horse Flash. I have arms, I swear they're being hidden by the shirt, but she's got her horse Flash and she's walking him towards the table, and so look for that video, because that's the kind of work that I do and I want to do more of it. I want to do more of these like weekends with me. I'll leave the kids at home. Okay, we can get a lot done, but you'll get to like one. Oh, we got popped up Snap crackle pop over here like Rice Krispies, so I was popping my neck.
Speaker 1:I always forget that I need to tell people as well what I'm doing, because I always use these as the podcast episodes too. Now, I forgot what I was saying. Oh, I just video. Yeah, you need to watch it and I want to start doing more of this. That's where I was at the VIP content days or weekends. Weekends would be for someone, or it would probably be like for three days actually, because I feel the need to get to spend some time with you, hang out with you. So about two days would be good and capture what it is that you do.
Speaker 1:If you're working with animals, let me capture that. If you are working with some clients in person, let me capture that, because, like I was saying earlier, when you do it yourself, it's very curated. You know what I mean. That's why I like doing these lives, because I fuck up, I say shit that doesn't. I don't even know what it means half the time, but it's not rehearsed. Do you know what I mean? So, like you go and you look at a carousel, that shit is rehearsed.
Speaker 1:And one I just did before this me posing in the water. I didn't stay in that water for very long, was too cold, but it looks like I'm out there having a blast. I was having a blast. Actually, I was having a lot of fun because I got to see my kids in the white river. How cool is that? It's so beautiful there. But but the water is so fucking cold because it is coming straight off the mountains and it is cold. I've been there twice now and both times it has been freezing, it's like. So I was having a good time, but what I'm saying is like the curated. It's a pose, unless it's a candid, which, if you look at the end of that carousel of me in the water and the white river, the end not rehearsed. I was about to fall on my face and I was laughing so hard. It was that with my luck I'd fall, I'd trip over this little pebble that pokes me in the foot and down the river she goes. So that part wasn't curated, but everything up to that point is so curated.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna do this and then right, so it's like I world right now needs to hire somebody like me so that your content is not as curated. Um, and what's really cool is like all the filming that I did for emma this weekend. That is easily a year's worth of content and what I find is a lot of people, especially new coaches, who maybe don't have the confidence, or if you're not tech savvy or you just don't enjoy creating content, it would be really beneficial to you to hire somebody and spend. You know what is a VIP content day, weekend. The days would be like you come to me, but if you want me to come for a weekend, I could come to you. So but the like I'd like to take that out of it, because when you're creating your own content as a coach, like I think we need to see you coaching, I think people for her, she's a Reiki healer. Okay, we need to see her Reiki healing, you know, not front of a screen and going whatever the fucking trend is of the week, like less curation and more existing, and that's what I want to capture.
Speaker 1:So this trip though it was, so I can't wait to go back. We're talking about I'm already like talking, I'm thinking of I present this to my husband. She's like you can come back once a month, stay like a week a month, and I'm like that's 12 weeks out of the year, that's a few months out of the year. What hold on? That's kind of like true for me. I want a farm life, I want the farmland and I want to be doing something I love. That's the whole pay to exist vibe, right? So do I want to do that? Do I want to go a week out of the month to stay in Missouri and live in my camper on this beautiful farm and create content and help her start this healing center. Huh, so, like I'm out with a little, a little land to show my husband, hey, this is how it's going to work. I'm leaving for a month, I mean for every month, to go live somewhere else and work somewhere else.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have more thing. I have not told anybody. But no, I'm not going to say I haven't told anybody. I I've not announced it online to anybody and I've only told a few people that are like really close to me. So you guys are, I'm about to do it and I'm going to. I'll make like an official day, but I wanted to tell you and I wanted to wait until the ink dried, until I knew it was for real, because my lizard brain wants to tell me oh, that's crazy, you're not, that's a scam, that you're not worth it, that's a jet Like they don't. I don't know. I just thought it was going to fall through Lizard brain, right, but it didn't. And I got presented with the contract and I got offered the position. So I'm going to go ahead and tell y'all Are you ready? My boobs are jiggling. I didn't know that was going to happen.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have a coaching collaboration with the one and only she Heals the World. So they have brought me on as one of their business coaches and they are worldwide you can look them up here on Instagram Worldwide and I get to do what I love. I get to work with women who are actually doing this. You know, people don't have to convince they're ready, they'll take on the world. I get to be part of that and there's the opportunity to become partner down the line. So if you've not heard of she Heals the World, go check them out. They're amazing. They've been around for 15 years. That's a huge accomplishment in the coaching industry to be around for 15 years and globally recognized.
Speaker 1:So I was, needless to say, when I had my phone interview with the founder and I'm still like in my head. I'm like because the phone tag like they have kind of kind of changed, like you know, and still just in my mind I'm just like me what? But they picked me and I picked them and so I will be running one of their masterminds and it's oh no, my cat got a lizard. God, luca, fuck, he's like in a gut in front of me. No, stop, I can't act shit like that. Luca, stop, stop it. Stop, leave him alone. You are such an asshole. He's not an asshole, he's being a cat. That's the way to end this episode. I just got offered a huge coaching position with she Heals the World, and now I'm gonna go save this lizard that's being attacked and ripped apart, which is terrible, but thank you, thank you for congratulating me.
Speaker 1:I'll do an official post today, but, all in all great trip it now has me in this headspace of we got to do more of this. Jacqueline will come to you. Okay, I'll, either you, or, if you got some land and you need me to film there, I will bring my camper and I will come and we will film and we will do all the things that you need to get done so that your brand has content for an entire year, so that you have your entire business strategy for the year, your content strategy, your posting strategy strategy. We'll get all your offers created. We'll get all your strike links set up. We'll get you set up for buy now, pay later options so that all your clients can pay you through Affirm, klarna, afterpay, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:It can help you get everything done an entire weekend. That's what Emma kind of made this weekend is like we got so much done and two kids here. Like we got so much done and you and two kids here. So it just goes to show that when you are super focused and this poor lizard leave him alone, luca, all right, I'm gonna go kick this ass, this cat's ass, this poor lizard oh my God, I don't know if he should put it out of his misery or what. So sad, but, yeah, sorry to episode like this, this poor lizard. Though, thank you again. I hope that you all listening on Just Women Talking Shit. Don't hate me for talking shit about my cat, but I don't know. It's like nature, but it just bothers me, and I hope that you check out all the content that we're going to be putting out here soon. For Emma, um, you should go check her out. Embodied by Emma is her Instagram account, and I tag her in a lot of stuff on Instagram too, so you can find her there, and I think that's it.
Speaker 1:Don't forget to share episodes with your friends. We need this this to to more people. I want to start bringing on some really big names, which is a show. I do have a wait list of like a hundred people already waiting to be on the show. I'm sitting on probably 10 recordings at a time. I'm backlogged, all the things. So it's getting there, but it'll only get bigger if you start doing, you know, your part, which is share this episode. Or I have like a really archive of interviews with some great experts and great, just great in general great stories and wonderful, like just depth, knowledge and wisdom. I would say so, whenever you find one of those episodes I would just recommend when it, like it's helping you or somebody comes to mind. I think it's really important that we share it.
Speaker 1:So some things I'm going to try to do better on. I'm going to for my interviews. I'm going to start, I think, getting some questions together beforehand. I've really just been kind of winging it. I've been listening to the Mel Robbins podcast a lot lately and she really inspires me to be more organized. You know she's a whole team behind her, so obviously you know there's a lot of that and doing the research and stuff behind her. Uh, so obviously you know there's a lot of that and doing the research and stuff. But I think I need to make more time for that so I can make the show more pleasurable for all of you, and it would also probably help with the editing process too. So, oh, it's been great.
Speaker 1:I'm about to go drop this camper off my brothers and just see what the day holds. I've got an appointment here in a little bit I gotta to, but outside of that I think it's just a let's ready to get back in your zone, because I've got podcast interviews tomorrow. I've got client calls, all the things. Um, if you're ever curious about working with me, I am always accepting clients. I'm not always accepting one-on-one clients, but I'm always accepting clients. I have, you know, my like package which is back and forth, um, text, voice messages, screen recording, stuff like that, and, um, that's always open for enrollment until until the program comes out, which I'll keep y'all posted on. It's not done yet. So I love y'all. I'll see you later If you, if you need to go smoke, get your little smoke. But overall, have a beautiful day on purpose and if you get the chance to go see Arkansas, missouri, any part of the Ozarks, do it. It is so fucking beautiful.
