Angela McCourt 0:00
Let's get ready for some serious shift. This is a podcast shifting Inside Out hosted by your quantum shifter Angela McCourt, we are diving into ways to empower and enable a quantum shift. Inspiring topics hacks and guest speakers take us on a journey around authenticity, challenging status quo, personal power and living a purpose filled life.

I'm excited for this episode for two big reasons. One is I have Beverly joy are on and she's just absolutely amazing. And she's going to share some of her incredible journey as well as some really great habits, tips and practices for remote working as well as being on the road and traveling. And she's going to share something that's really interesting and special that most people have never even considered in their career that she actually did for seven years of her career. The other part that's really exciting about this episode is this is the first episode that I had the guest in person. And we actually did this in my studio in downtown Inverness. So it was really exciting to actually be able to do something in person for the podcast. So I'm really excited about what Beverly is going to share with you. And she is just a joy, and you're going to really have a lot of fun listening to this episode. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode. As you listen. You can find me on LinkedIn at Angie belts McCourt, and on Instagram at Angie underscore McCourt. So without further ado, let's hear from Beverly.

All right, Beverly, welcome to shifting inside out. I'm so grateful to have you on this episode. To get started. Why don't you go ahead, introduce yourself.

Beverly Joyer 1:58
Hello Angie, Beverly joyor. And I think we've known each other for a couple of years now. And I'm excited to be here and honored to be your guest. To give you a little bit of background about myself. I am a mom of a 26 year old son who is currently a first lieutenant in the US Army and lives a little bit away from his mom's. So that's hard at times. But my professional career, I'm in the pharmaceutical business. I've been in the pharmaceutical business for about the last 26 years, changing companies one time in my career, started out in sales. And then as we're going to talk about today a little bit, transitioned into a training role. And then decided to go back out into the field into sales again in a more specialized arena. So have had a great long career with pharmaceuticals and love what I'm doing.

Angela McCourt 3:02
Fantastic. I love it. So we're going to start with just a few questions, quick, round questions that the listeners can get to know you a little bit better. So to start out, why don't you share what is your morning ritual.

Beverly Joyer 3:15
So I do have a very regimented ritual mornings, I find that structure in my life makes me much more effective and efficient. So every morning, I get up at the same time at 7am. And I get dressed immediately make my bed every morning, as many of you may have heard of the first make your bed but definitely bite into that. So make my bed and have my first accomplishment of the day in the first 10 minutes. Get up, walk my dog, always have a cup of coffee sitting out on the back porch to reflect and take a few minutes in the morning before I start my day and get into the fast pace of my life.

Angela McCourt 4:03
Oh, that's beautiful. And Lulu is just a great little inspiration of energy. That's her little her little French Bulldog. She's so cute. Um, which is probably another addition to how do you renew your energy?

Beverly Joyer 4:19
Yes. Well, I think that's really important. And as I mentioned, I think a lot of how I renew my energy is structure. So I know we've talked a couple of times about this in the past, but I have probably in the last year, gone to a very regimented sleep wake cycle. I go to bed every night at 11 o'clock and I get up every morning at 7am And if that ritual is broken, I don't sleep in later to make up for it but try immediately to get back into the routine and I really find that I have a lot more energy having You know, a good eight hours of sleep every night. So that's how I renew my energy.

Angela McCourt 5:05
Oh, and sleep is so important. And you know, the whole scientific premise around circadian rhythms. Yes, it basically says to do that exactly what you're doing.

Beverly Joyer 5:17
Yes. And I can tell you, I see a huge difference. As my son was away at college, and, you know, life becomes less structured. He had a tendency to go to bed when I wanted to go to bed and get up when I needed to get up. And I definitely was starting to feel more fatigue during the end of the day. The other thing I think, is I also turned vegetarian and took all meat products out of my diet. And I feel like that, again, was a major increase in my energy level. Wow,

Angela McCourt 5:52
that's fantastic. And you need to share some of your recipes with how you get protein. Now, what is your guilty pleasure?

Beverly Joyer 6:03
Oh, Angie, I hope there's no judgment passed here to judge.

If I'm being totally transparent on my guilty pleasure, it is watching 90 Day fiance every Sunday night. I find it very interesting to watch it through the perspective of human nature and find it very entertaining at the same time.

Angela McCourt 6:31
Are you into reality show

Beverly Joyer 6:33
definitely unique thing. That's why I laugh about passing judgment, because it's kind of out of character for me, but I definitely enjoy it. I'm more of a kind of drama girl, but definitely enjoy 90 Day fiance

Angela McCourt 6:49
very well, thank you for sharing. All right. So one of the things I'm really excited about having you on this episode is that you've had a really interesting journey you shared a bit around your pharmaceutical career and some of the shifts and changes that you've made in that career. There's a, there's a part of this that I can't wait for you to share with the listeners. That just blows my mind. And I'll let them clue into what that part of your journey is. But I would love for you to just go ahead and start as far back as you'd like and just share with us your journey.

Beverly Joyer 7:24
Sure. Well, as I mentioned, very young in my career, I definitely got involved in the pharmaceutical industry, and started out in a sales position and probably didn't realize how lucky I was to have joined an industry where you every day have the opportunity to make a difference in patients lives. I know sometimes there's different perceptions or opinions of the pharmaceutical industry. But truly, they invest so much money into research and education, and supporting patients. What I feel like I get out of bed every day to do and have for the past 25 plus years, is really to impact patients lives and to help them have a better quality of life through the medications that we provide. So probably didn't realize that when I was younger and started in this industry, but certainly as my career has evolved, it has really crystallized and become very clear to me why I needed to be in this role doing what I'm doing.

Angela McCourt 8:37
That's awesome. So you mentioned that you started out in sales in this in this journey. And how many years? Were you doing sales before you switched into training? And what was that all about?

Beverly Joyer 8:49
So I was about 18 years in the pharmaceutical industry. I truly have a passion for learning and education. So I had the opportunity to go into a training role. I think that caveat to that training role was that I needed to travel every week, our office was headquartered in Chicago, so flying from Florida, to Chicago. And then the weeks that I didn't fly to Chicago I would be out in the field with the sales reps and or the managers or leadership in different parts of the country. So in essence, I probably traveled 48 to 50 weeks, a month or a year sorry. for about seven years of my career.

Angela McCourt 9:37
Wow. I will never complain about my three plus hour a day commute again.

Beverly Joyer 9:43
was funny because I would take this exam flight every Monday morning return on this Thursday 6pm flight and when I would get to the office because of the added hour that I would gain I would be in the office before the peak Hold on, we're commuting from down the street.

Angela McCourt 10:05
That's crazy. Yeah. And even in the winter are you did this

Beverly Joyer 10:08
winter I only one time I tell people because they asked me all the time I say only one time that I ever not bring a coat because it's so hard when you're leaving 8090 100 degree weather to really be able to process in your brain that it's snowing in the team. So only one time that I dealt with that.

Angela McCourt 10:34
So what was your son? Like? Where was he at this stage?

Beverly Joyer 10:40
That was a big part of my decision. Because I wanted to wait, I was a single parent raising my son. And so I wanted to wait until he was out of high school. There was a minor overlap of about six months towards the end of his high school career that I did commute and have this position where my mom truly stepped in and helped take care of him. But it really the majority of my traveling was following his high school graduation.

Angela McCourt 11:10
Yeah, it was probably actually a good Bootcamp for him before he went to West Point Yes.

Laundry wasn't really good. Sometimes things work in a serious way. That's exactly that's what

Beverly Joyer 11:31
I always say, I am a firm believer in fate don't realize why something occurs or doesn't occur. But when you get past it and you reflect back, you know,

Angela McCourt 11:43
even if it doesn't feel like it's the most comfortable thing or that it fits with the you know, the structure that you have at that time. Yeah, I totally agree with that. Now, when you started this, like, how hard was it to get into that routine?

Beverly Joyer 11:58
It was really hard. Yeah. You know, the first few months, it was exciting. And very quickly, I realized that you need to have some semblance of normal, that you need to have a routine that just because you're traveling, you can't be eating out at fancy restaurants every night and you know, going to bed whenever again, that you do need some type of routines. So very quickly, I realized that it was really important about how could I find some type of normalcy in this very not normal world. Yeah, so I started realizing little things were super important to that. And one of the things that I would do is, of course, I would always stay at the same hotel, not only the same hotel, but I would try to stay in the same hotel room. And if I couldn't get the same hotel room, you know, if you, if you've ever really stayed in a hotel, all the rooms, all the floors at a certain level are all the same. Definitely. Because I would find, you know, if you wake up in the middle of the night, and you're a little disoriented, being in the same room consistently really helped with that. And, you know, the hotel staff was very nice, like, they began to really know me. So that was important. And then other things were important to about maybe going home or being at the hotel at a certain time so that you could have a I could have a wine down. Because sometimes we stay out late when we're not in our normal environment. And then we think, Oh, we're just gonna go to bed and get up in the morning and started all over again. So finding some time to make sure that some of the rituals that I would do in the evening, were able to be followed through.

Angela McCourt 13:49
Yeah, that's amazing. And then did you miss home?

Beverly Joyer 13:53
Did it took a while though, I will say, I think I was so wrapped up in how much I loved what I was doing. I felt like I was having a big impact on the organization that distracted me. And I think it also helped in the transition of my son going so far away to New York to go to school. You know, we had in essence been together every day of his life. So it kind of provided a nice kind of smoother transition at that time in our lives for both he and I. And it also allowed me the opportunity to see him some weekends that instead of flying home, I would go to New York and spend the weekend and see him. Yeah, I would say I was very blessed to be able to have all that workout in my life in that time.

Angela McCourt 14:48
Okay, so fast forward. Now. You did that for seven years.

Beverly Joyer 14:52
I did that for seven years, every day and I loved every day of it, but it was very strange because I feel like I woke up one morning, and I was like, I don't think I want to do this anymore. It's time for me to do something else. I really enjoy the customer interactions of my sales job. And I was beginning to miss that. I was beginning to miss the the, the knowledge and like interactions with the health care providers in trying to figure out solutions to problems and helping them serve patients. And I felt like I was a little removed from that. So it's the strangest thing, but again, believing in fate and destiny, and that there was a plan. I would say within a week, I had an opportunity to go back to an advanced position in sales in my hometown, so it all worked out that I was able to make that transition.

Angela McCourt 15:53
That's fantastic. Yeah. And, you know, I think, you know, sometimes we get that nudge, it's like, either you need to go do this or up, it's time to shift gears again, whatever the the timing of in what switching or what's changing, it's that nudge that Yeah, listen to Yeah, for sure.

Beverly Joyer 16:09
What would I advise, you maybe had the opportunity to work remote or travel like I did. And I think one of the things that really paved the path for me not knowing at the time that I was paving the path. So I would always, every single week make two goals for myself. And the first one was that I would reach out to someone that I didn't know. And I would arrange to meet with them, whether it was in the corporate coffee shop, and connect with them. And I mean, people from departments that we probably never knew existed, whether it was operations, whether it was data, it whether it was marketing, but people that I did not and would not be expected to interact with. But I wanted to expand my network and being a salesperson by heart, we do that naturally. So I think it was a behavior that like I needed to fulfill. But I can tell you, it's definitely what made the transition when I needed the transition to happen quickly, because I was constantly reaching out. So I would always reach out to someone that I didn't know, introduce myself, and make arrangements to meet for 30 minutes and have a cup of coffee or interact. And then the second thing that I always did is once a week, I would have dinner with someone that I did work with that I felt like I needed to continue to develop and maybe a deeper relationship with so that I kind of call it like making deposits, you don't want to just go to someone that you have a very surface relationship with when you have an issue and need to make a withdraw if you haven't made any deposit. So I worked hard and try to invest myself into getting to know others within my organization. And it made it very easy and commuting because I could do those two things every single week. And that's what made the transition back out to the field. So easy. Because whether or not you're planning are thinking, if you were to ask me in the middle of that career, or that position, where you were, you're going to go back out and sales, I probably would have said probably not, you know, I might stay in the house and try to do something there. But when it did hit me that I really want to go back out, thank heavens, I had made those connections, growing those connections that people knew me knew who I was knew who I work.

Angela McCourt 18:43
Yeah, and you know, for being out in the field, which means you're by yourself, but you're still dependent on a lot of other people to do your jobs. That's the best investment you can make. Absolutely. Yeah, it was very strategic. But also, you know, it was very purposeful. Yeah, like having your time not just spent on everybody else's agenda. Yes. And just the you know, the agenda of the work, but your purposeful agenda, which that does make I could feel that difference and how that would be in that different environment. And it's like, oh, what do I get to go see this week

Beverly Joyer 19:21
the opportunity to schedule those out in advance and not being afraid to approach people about you. Because some of the best relationships I developed are with people that were much higher level than I was but we're all just people at the end of the day and we're all here trying to achieve the same goal. So

Angela McCourt 19:42
yeah, oh, that's awesome. Do you do you have any other tips besides the same hotel room? You know, kind of establishing your your a goal or two goals or something while you're on this travel and trying to hold structure like what kind of tips can you give around that?

Beverly Joyer 19:58
Yes, so I am peloton rider. So definitely the hotel that I stayed at actually had a peloton. exercise schedule, I think being very cautious of your eating, it's very easy when you're eating out four or five days a week to have that get out of control very quickly. So I think monitoring and thinking about that, and sometimes that included going to the grocery store and then going back to my room and not eating out every single night. Yeah, that's a good point. Even little things like I had oils that, you know, were a familiar sense that I could put into the hotel room nice in some of the hotels, I know even now provide that because it's so important, especially to business travelers. But if I could ever get a hotel room, make sure that it had like a chair so that you weren't just going into the room and going to bed, the room was more than that.

Angela McCourt 21:05
That's a good point. So that you're it's actually also kind of the structure of many home,

Beverly Joyer 21:11
you want to make sure that you have a chair they can sit in whether you're you know, most of them have a desk, but they don't all have like a chair. And so if you want to sit and watch TV and unwind for 30 minutes or an hour, you don't want to have to be in bed. Again, I think it's part of that. And that can cause trouble falling asleep. So that way you're sitting in the chair, you're watching TV, if you need to work there, usually always a desk in there. And I think controlling the hours in the office, when I first started, I would say for the first couple of years, I was going in before the sun rose and I was coming out before the or after the sunset, I think, you know, that started to be exhausting. Yeah. And so I think really, again, making sure that you're trying to have a normal schedule and don't become consumed. Because it really doesn't improve the quality of your work. Yeah, you have to unplug and unwind.

Angela McCourt 22:08
I think the other thing too, is a lot of times people feel like when others are traveling into their home town, like their, their, their space, that they have to entertain them. But I think there's and then and then the people coming in, feel this pressure. You know, they're like, Oh, I would really just love to go read my book, I'd really love to just be in the room or go work out or go for a walk or something. But now I feel obligated, because this person is being so kind and inviting me out to dinner and I have to go, guess what, everybody, you don't have to do either side of you know, just release some of the expectations and just say, Hey, do you want to do this? Or no, it's not a big deal. Because I have my own kids and work and stuff going on too. But I'm just trying to host or hostess you know. So I think that now that everybody's starting to travel again, let's just release some of the grip we used to have on this type of stuff. Because it does wear you down.

Beverly Joyer 23:07
It does. Yeah, completely. I completely agree. And being in an industry where there were a lot of folks traveling. I think people have caught on to that. But you're right. We haven't done it in so long. In fact, I've started traveling again now and I travelled last week and I traveled this week. And it's kind of like shocking.

Angela McCourt 23:32
I keep hearing that. Yeah. Back to let's question, what's the purpose of the travel and you're obviously I feel tells you have clients, but a lot of people are in that in that boat. And you know, a lot of clients have worked have moved to remote working right. So not even in an office. So it's like, okay, well, what's the purpose of me going to that office versus if I have a really, really deep connection via zoom or video, you know, call Absolutely, or name your flavor of videoconferencing. But, you know, it's it's really, we got to break some of the old traditional kind of what we assumed was the way of engagement because guess what, we didn't have to do that for two plus years. And it worked.

Beverly Joyer 24:23
Exactly right. And I agree with you. And I do think it's, it's thinking about like, what is the added value on needing to have a live interaction versus a virtual interaction? Because we were all forced to become experts. Yeah,

Angela McCourt 24:37
virtually interact. Yes. So true. So now, if you look back at the seven years, you did that and now knowing that we've been able to make this transition. What are your thoughts on that? Like, does it feel like it was a self sacrifice and it's so not necessary now? I mean, what are your thoughts on how that

Beverly Joyer 24:59
goes? set. So I come out in the field for almost not quite an complete year. So I had been back out in the field in sales from training for about eight months when COVID hit, literally, it was a situation where we were called in March and total, no more, you know, live interactions until you know, you hear from us. So went from going out every single day, Monday through Friday, get up, go out, make calls, to all of a sudden, what do we do, because we've never done anything else. We've never done this job any other way. So it forced us number one to become experts on virtual interactions. You know, Microsoft Teams, we had none of the equipment, we had none of the skills to do that. And the interesting thing was, though, that our customers were very open. And they needed to learn those skills and practices skills as well, because that's how they were seeing their patients. There was a lot of telemedicine going on. So it was a very quick transition. But it was a very forced transition. However, I will say I think there's I think of nothing but positivity out of the changes, I think about how it's affected my life personally. And the way I live every day, and I see nothing but positivity. I feel like I was kind of on the hamster wheel. being so busy, not even just at work, but outside of work. You know, cram schedules, every, you know, everybody pulling you right and left. And all of a sudden, it was like a reset. That's what I'd say it was kind of like a reset. Yeah. And I think now we're very strategic. I know, I personally am very strategic about thinking about how am I going to go back to some kind of balance between what was 100% virtual where I didn't leave my house to now finding some kind of hybrid between being virtual and having live interaction. Yeah.

Angela McCourt 27:15
Now, if you look back at seven years, you did the training job? Could you do that? Virtually?

Beverly Joyer 27:21
absolutely, positively? Yeah, it's been done. Again, I think there was a need for equipment upgrades, and we never wanted to invest it. Because it was we knew live right. Like it it, I think it eventually would have occurred, it just occurred super quick. Yeah, yeah, it was skill development. You know, we all took skill development on how to have effective interactive training, as well as customer interactions, how do you have an effective interaction with a customer? Virtually? Because to think that you do the exact same thing that you do live is, is probably not realistic? There's definitely things that are different. But it forces us to, like, move into the future, I think much quicker. Yeah, we would have done it. Yeah.

Angela McCourt 28:14
Now, you mentioned the hamster wheel. So kind of taking that, you know, were either its commute or it was you know, driving to doctors offices or offices that you would go to, or it was traveling on plane. As you've even now still gotten back so much of that time, how has that changed in the work and home environment for you?

Beverly Joyer 28:36
Definitely more balanced. For sure. I, like I mentioned, I've become very regimented, like in my personal schedule, when I go to bed, when I exercise what I eat, when you're on the road and being pulled in 10 different places, it's very difficult to keep that up. And I do find there are definitely days that I'm like, oh, no, I gotta get up, you know, at six instead of seven. Because if not, I can't I don't have time to exercise. So what's more important, is it more important, but at least I'm making a conscious decision on what I think is best for me.

Angela McCourt 29:15
Yeah. And you have that choice? Yes, definitely. Yeah, that's interesting.

Beverly Joyer 29:21
I feel like with COVID that it really allowed me as I was kind of like tracking to eighth tenure, you know, thinking about retirement plan, and I always thought I would retire in floral city. And I one day woke up and I realized, why am I waiting? What am I waiting for? You know, I want to be there. Why am I not doing this now? So I really started to evaluate like, what I was waiting for what I was afraid of what I was thinking might be the drawback to moving and honestly I couldn't I couldn't come up with enough reasons why I wasn't doing it. So decided one day to put my house on the market. And literally within four days, I had 10 offers on my house. And I realized, okay, I started this. We're going forwards. But I can tell you by far without question, it's the best thing I ever did. And it overshadowed any negative thing that came out of COVID. Because it was such a life changing experience.

Angela McCourt 30:30
totally great. That's exact same thing that happened with John and I to it was we weren't planning on moving up here for another five or six years. And we ended up saying, literally, as soon as we both got the notice, hey, you're everybody's going virtual we went, we're going where we want to be. And I think a lot of people have made those shifts over the past couple of years is I want to live where I want to live, I don't want to be tied to an office, I don't want to have to live in a city or in the suburb and have a huge commute into that office, like having the workforce decentralized, but But living where they want to live, I think is a huge benefit to having, first of all, just the talent, but also the engagement. And also the, you know, the fact that you get people who are happy and balanced because now they're not on that hamster wheel trying to live in a space that they don't really want to be at or they're outgrown. And they're just ready to move into a different, you know, a different way of living, I think, too, because like, up here, we're physically together in the room right now in our studio. But up here, it's much slower pace than where we were at with you and St. Pete And us and Lutz in Tampa. So it makes such a difference to be able to have where you feel like you've got a bit of control over your life, and the speed at which you're living it. And location does make a difference.

Beverly Joyer 31:56
To that more, you know, I think one of the things I realized is it was the speed of what was going on around me. And it's hard to describe, but it's a totally different speed. Yeah. And no, I never looked back. I never one day said, I don't know that I made the right decision. I mean, it has been such a positive thing for me that I have never regretted it a single day, in fact, so much that my brother and sister in law saw how happy I was up here and they ended up buying a house. Moving up here, my brother took his job, my sister in law just left a job, a career that she had been in for 30 years, and started a new career so that she could work remotely. And then lastly, my mother who was a fourth generation St. Petersburg native, left St Petersburg and moved up here as well. And in the sense of family and the speed of everything here is just so enjoyable.

Angela McCourt 33:06
Yeah, and I've we've even found like, the things that interest us in our hobbies have all changed. And you know, it's interesting, too. We've gone back to Lutz a few times. And I just remember literally driving through down 54 going, Oh my God, thank God we moved. Because there's so much more traffic. There's so many more people. There's so much more building going up and I'm like no freakin way. I was not going to be doing that at this time in my life. I'm done with all that. suburbs. No HOAs

Beverly Joyer 33:42
I couldn't agree more. And I feel like I kind of feel like it's putting all the animals in one cage and of course there's gonna be when you have more more space, that feeling like people are encroaching coming in. I couldn't be happier. Yeah, I don't want to feel like I don't want to sell it too hard.

Angela McCourt 34:08
I know. I'm gonna bleep out the city. What was that John and I always say that people stop advertising our town is really small you won't there's no shopping mall here. We don't even have a Home Depot we do close by 30 minutes away. kind of place. Oh my gosh, that's fantastic. So um, if you if you you know, kind of look ahead, and where are you think about where your journey is headed. Like, what are you open to? Like, what are the possibilities there?

Beverly Joyer 34:49
So I always feel like I'm completely open I and I know it's kind of cliche, but I always say I never say never because sometimes I think there's a need need for you to fill in, in an organization. And maybe that's not what you've planned on. But you know I have, I'm going into my 14th year with a stellar. I'm going in my 14th year of pharmaceuticals. And I think if the organization needs me to help fill a role or fill a gap, then I'm always open to hearing that. I don't know that I Deeley I would go back to traveling every single week. But again, I never say never, I'm really enjoying the pace of my life today, I've really connected with being back out in the field back with my customers, I like controlling my schedule. I enjoy even the ability to be able to choose whether an interaction should be virtual or it should be live. And sometimes that changes, you know, sometimes it's the same customer and you see him a few times virtually, and then you go see him live. So, yes, yes. So I'm not sure what the future holds for me. But I'm certainly open. And I wake up every morning, excited to go to work and loving what I'm doing. And that's what's super important.

Angela McCourt 36:23
That's so good. That's awesome. Well, thank you so much, Beverly, for sharing, that was incredible. And I wanted to just give you some space here to make some call outs. So if there's a book, if there's an organization or nonprofit, or products or anything that you would like to share with the listeners, I can go ahead and put it in the show notes. But you can share it here too great.

Beverly Joyer 36:46
Well, certainly, you know, being in Citrus County now, and I even recruited you to be involved but definitely believe in Altrusa. And the need for childhood literacy, particularly in Citrus County, as Citrus County begins to evolve, we want to make sure that these kids who are coming up in more rural counties have the opportunity to have access to books, and literacy. So definitely appreciate and volunteer my time, to Altrusa to try to make that happen here in Citrus County. And I think part of that also is an organization called blessings. And Angie, you and I, we pack kits on the weekends. And what that does is provide food for children to take home over the weekend. Because certainly part of learning is definitely affected by whether you have access to food or if you're concerned about being hungry or distracted by being hungry as a child or where your next meal is coming from. This provides a consistent method for kids to have food over the weekend. And not even just for them, but also for their families. So definitely believe in those two organizations, because I believe that's the foundation of creating successful healthy children for our future.

Angela McCourt 38:22
Yes, beautiful. And in Citrus County, I think it's like 70% of kids qualify for discounted breakfast and lunch. Which means there are a lot of a lot of children that probably don't have food on the weekend. So I'm very grateful to be able to be part of that organization and to work with you on on the blessings front, too. So yeah,

Beverly Joyer 38:42
I think it's such a well oiled machine. That's my exposure, because having only been exposed now for about eight, nine months. It's it's such an easy way they have it down to a science, they obviously have the resources, they know where to get the food, they know what kind of food is able to be to last over the weekend that the kids will eat and make it very easy to be a volunteer there and definitely would encourage any contributions to go to them as well.

Angela McCourt 39:16
Yeah. And there's also organizations throughout because you were part of blessings in St. Pei as well.

Beverly Joyer 39:22
Yes, yes. Yeah, absolutely. So I think we have to invest in our kids. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm at a point in my life now where I've raised my child and I was lucky to be able to provide for him. Now, I think it's it's time to give back to the community that we live in and make sure that kids of the future have opportunity to have the same success.

Angela McCourt 39:47
Yeah, I love it. Very good. Well, Beverly, thank you so much. This has been amazing and you're by the way, the first interview that I've done in person Oh wow. Yes at all. Love these episodes, you were the very first one. So that that has been fun and exciting. Even though you know, it's interesting because I, when I do record them, even though the listener only hears the audio, the guest and I are on video together. So I always feel like this sense of connection but being physically in the same space has been like a little bit added like a little bit more can I don't know, I felt more guilty. But maybe that's just you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so true. That's awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining the show. It was definitely very insightful. And hopefully, as folks are getting back into travel, like they're able to take some of the practical tips that you offered, just to hold on to some of the structures they've been able to build for themselves. Over the past couple of years of having maybe a little bit more time to do that. And hold on to those structures in those practices, because you can do it while you're on the road to hold on to it, protect it. If you liked this episode, you can pop it on LinkedIn at Angie belts mCore. And let me know. And if you really want to say thank you just please leave a review on Apple podcasts. Thanks for listening, I have an exciting opportunity to share with you. And this has to do with an app that I just recently launched. And it's called best self activation. And you can find it in the app store, as well as on Google Play Store. There is a seven day free trial. And in this app, you can basically go into Subscriptions to get access to literally almost 300 transformational opportunities. So one of the things that I really wanted to focus on here is helping people get back to their best self. And as we are born, we literally have this amazing brilliance, wisdom, talent, gifts, everything is just kind of created into this little treasure chest inside of us. But over time as we're exposed to the world. And as we're exposed to certain conditioning and programming, we tend to kind of lock away some of our best self in this treasure chest. So what I wanted to do was create an easy and scalable and very affordable way for people to be able to go and unlock their best self and to activate everything that they have to offer in this life. In this app, I go into all the life centers to basically clear out in our barriers, self limiting beliefs, behaviors and patterns to unlock the treasure chest that is you. And that is mostly in the transformation subscription. The transformation subscription also includes the foundation subscription. And that path is really all about mindfulness and building mindfulness into every aspect of your life. There are tons of different meditations as well as different new techniques to you that you are going to find absolutely incredibly life changing, that I'm excited for you to go explore. So check it out, you can go to my website to learn more. It's www dot Angela mccourt.com forward slash best hyphen self hyphen activation. And I will also put this in the show notes. Hit the App Store and Google Play store and look for best self activation. Go ahead and download it for free and I hope you enjoy thank you and let me know what you think.