06/09/2024
It's been a few years since I've actually opened or posted on FB (intentionally dropped social media after Mrs. American and Mrs. World).
I need to SERIOUSLY update my profile, so in the meantime, just know :
- I still refer leads for Arizona homes to my mentee and good friend Kip Wilkins but otherwise have shrunken that biz to...
- create a Private Equity Real Estate Investment Fund with Chris Kirkpatrick (go to CashFlowHacking.com to watch a Pitch Deck video we filmed about what we're raising for and applying toward!)
- Bought an existing EcoHotel in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 --- in a remote tiny little fishing/surf village on the north coast, where the mountains and jungle kisses the ocean --- and are converting it to an ECO RETREAT destination! 10 rooms currently, open-air jungle immersion style, we will be adding on substantially in the next few years.
we attract hotel guests and retreats (yoga, healing, conscious business) who seek good peeps, peace, adventure and personal growth In Paradise.
It's VisitZARIA.com and on IG if you are interested.
- MOVED the kids down here January 1st 2024 - just 5 short months ago - to a rural town in a 3rd world nation, where we don't speak Spanish and the closest real supermarket is 1.5 hrs away.
We went from the golf course to having 4.5 horses (one on the way), 1.5 dogs (both rescues, one is up for adoption), 8 chickens, and a hand bottle-fed orphan goat named Ziko.
It's a total riot. The kids are THRILLED and though we love Arizona, we are psyched to see them playing in the REAL jungle instead of the concrete one.
- I'm attempting to Homeschool them, which means online school. We'll see if I make the same choice or not for next year 🙈
- Chris' company LIFE180 that we started together in 2014 has become a top fastest growing whole life insurance company in the US. He has the #1 YouTube channel in the world on the topic, and is growing and running it remotely from his oceanview podcast studio right here 😅
- My parents, amd specifically Dad are doing amazing (thank you for asking!) He wouldn't mind telling you he's a .01% survivor of Pancreatic Cancer coming up on 4 YEARS this November (hint: it's not chemo & radiation) and also Prostate. He lives a healthy, athletic life with the tumors, controlled by a mixture of naturopathic oncology treatments. If you know of anyone looking for an alternative path to the current oncology path, reach out. 😉
-I'm finding fulfillment on a different stage. It's taken me a few years to get my MOJO back, but here comes!
I celebrate my 15th YEAR of Sobreity on September 25th (Also Knightley's 13th birthday, wow!) 🎂
And I'm hosting my first Wellness Retreat to celebrate it. Visitzaria.com/Wellness if you're curious. ✨️
I retreated a lot after winning the Superbowl of married women's pageantry, not knowing what was next for me or how to continue to make an impact like I had by taking my Recovery Story to stage and being the first openly Sober National Pageant Winner....
But my new stage is yoga pants (lashes and nails I do myself in the jungle bathroom), and sitting cross-legged on our oceanview yoga platform , facilitating people's growth through healing retreats aim lucky enough to be invited part of.
I'm just warming up, not sure how I will be called to progress from here...
but you know me. Not a Planner. When I'm called to serve, I am willing to shift directions and follow a new flow.
Did that in recovery, in pageants, in real estate, and now in this new real estate investment and everything-growth adventure, combined. 🌿
So I'll just keep saying Yes when called, and see where God leads.
Much love to you, and let's reconnect. Its been a minute 💖✨️😅
PS - This was typed out the old fashioned way, NOT AI-written. That matters. MUAH!
