by Torrie Oglesby | Jul 18, 2015 | Learn + Grow
This week’s #GIRLBOSS: JESSICA ALBA
What makes her #GIRLBOSS certified: She is the founder of eco-friendly company, The Honest Company, that’s worth just under $1 billion dollars, a movie star and a phenomenal mom!
I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary.
-Jessica Alba
- Work out with your friends
Being a #GIRLBOSS requires constant effort towards your work! However you can get burned out if you don’t take timeout of your day just for you! Working out is a great way to have time for yourself and Jessica prefers to do it with friends! Working out with friends makes it more fun and more enjoyable! Grab some friends and head to the gym for a sweat session!
- Take a Zen Moment
It’s important to take a moment of calm throughout the day of a #GIRLBOSS! Jessica reminds us how important it is to quite our minds and breathe. As a #GIRLBOSS our agenda can get pretty hectic, so take it from Jessica and have a Zen moment for peace and clarity!
- Family time is crucial
Jessica is constantly posting pictures of the time she takes for her family! If you are a #GIRLBOSS mommy, then you already know how important it is to take time to specifically for family! Jessica teaches us that it’s important to have fun family time where work is not in sight!
by Torrie Oglesby | Jul 14, 2015 | Lifestyle+Culture
- The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon
Oh She Glows is a colorful vegetarian cookbook. Now, before you stop reading, let’s admit that even if you are not a vegetarian, we all could use a little more veggie servings a day. One reason why I like Angela’s cookbook is because she shows us new and innovative ways to weave vegetables and fruits into our meals. My favorites from her cookbook are the out-the-door chia power doughnuts and roasted beet salad with hazelnuts, thyme &balsamic reduction. You can purchase this cookbook for about $25.00.
- Joyous Health by Joy McCarthy
Joyous Health is amazing because not only is it a cookbook but it’s also a, as the title suggest, health book! Throughout the book, there’s healthy, wholesome recipes, Joyous Health Tips, and she even talks about mental health and having positive thoughts. She teaches us healthy ways to combat stress and to fight trigger eating. My absolute favorite part about the book is when she teaches us the importance of detoxing and gives us drink detox recipes. This one will run you for around $20.00
- The Real Girls Kitchen by Haylie Duff
Now this cookbook is for my real girls out there who love to eat real, delicious, and meaty foods. Haylie is excellent at having the perfect balance between healthy and yummy mixed with new recipes and old recipes that are just too good to chuck! My favorite from her recipes is the Haricot Vert Salad. I took it to a potluck once and everyone loved it! Also, her sweet and spicy butternut squash is remarkable. The real Girls Kitchen will cost you around $19.00.
by Torrie Oglesby | Jul 6, 2015 | Lifestyle+Culture
Recently I was feeling like I needed a good stretch—mentally, physically and spiritually. When I get this urge, I decide to try something new! This could be cooking a new recipe, reading a new book or experiencing a new workout! I’ve always done Yoga in the comfort of my own home by using YouTube as my yoga teacher, so when the opportunity presented itself to go to a local yoga studio and join in on a class I was ecstatic! However, I was also a tad bit fearful of doing yoga in front of real people who were probably really good at yoga. I decided to let the fear fuel me and pull me in the right direction by going to the class anyways. I’m so glad I didn’t because it ended up being a great experience and opportunity to be challenged! Yoga is a mental, physical, and spiritual exercise that originated in India. It includes breath control, simple meditation, and body movements that help your overall health and allows you to relax. Thankfully, I attended a yoga studio that didn’t push any certain kind of beliefs on me, but just allowed me to enter the studio and practice yoga with no restraints. I got the mental, physical and spiritual stretch that I was looking for and wanted to share with you guys how yoga helped me to stretch out in every area.
- Mentally- Mentally the yoga class allowed me to become focused and present. With the teacher guiding us through each move and the calming music that was playing, I was allowed to be aware of the now and push all other thoughts and concerns out of my mind for the hour class. It also allowed me to not rush to the next position or pose but rather to be still until it was time to move.
- Physically- Physically the yoga pushed me more than I was expecting! I was dripping sweat, my flexibility was being pushed and worked on, and I also learned what it meant to listen to your body and let my body sink into whatever position we were working on.
- Spiritually- Spiritually, the yoga class allowed me to be still and listen and converse with my Heavenly Father. I truly believe, no matter what religion you are, we all could use a little help in this area of listening and talking to our creator! At the end of the class the teacher had us all lay on our mats for about 5 minutes in silence and encouraged us to just listen to our spirits and our bodies. I took that opportunity to talk to Jesus and pray and listen. It was marvelous.
I hope you all are encouraged and go out there this week and find something new to do regarding your exercise regimen. I highly suggest putting yoga into your exercise regimen because it truly is a powerful way of being aware of all 3 parts of our bodies-body, spirit and soul!
With love and big smiles,
torrie.
by Torrie Oglesby | Jul 6, 2015 | Learn + Grow
CASH OVER CARD: How having cash helps you to not overspend.
Repeat after me, “CASH IS KING.”
This is something successful CEO of Nasty Gal, one of the fastest growing companies, Sophia Amoruso lives by. She’s never had to talk out a loan for her company and has never had to declare bankruptcy unlike a lot of other companies and she credits that towards only spending what she has and not a dime more.
Dave Ramsey, a financial author and mentor, also operates under the same kind of thinking using and preaching the envelope system.
It’s extremely easy to fall into the quickness of swiping our debt cards and credit cards. It’s how our society works now. Swiping all day but never balancing our check books or budgeting how many times we can actually afford to swipe our cards. Studies show that people spend less when they actually can touch and see the cash that they are spending
This is why I’m suggesting that you too, learn to operate with cash and not your card. Here’s some easy steps to get in the habit of spending cash instead of swiping your card and how to organize it the Dave Ramsey way!
- Know your current expenses.
Know what needs to go out and what can stay in. Be mindful of automatic bills that get withdrawn, be sure to not overlook them and get the cash out if it needs to be in your account instead.
- Find out how much cash to withdraw.
After you know your outputs, budget how much goes towards what and the total of cash that needs to come out.
- Organize your cash with envelopes.
Have titles for each envelope. For example: Tithe, Gifts, Gas, Groceries, Eating Out, Household Goods, Fun Activities, Clothing and whatever else you and your family decide to budget out for.
Now this is the trick, when the envelope is empty of money, YOU’RE DONE. No getting more money out of your account or taking money from other envelopes. You are done spending in that category until next pay day. When there is no more cash that means no more spending. This takes self-control and discipline which this system will help you to develop and cultivate.
With love and big smiles,
torrie.
by Torrie Oglesby | Jul 6, 2015 | Family + Relationships
Fun like This.
It’s summertime and because of that we are spending a lot of time out and about having fun in our city! Last week we were at the sprinkle water park and so many kids were there. My three year old daughter, Journey, is very social and doesn’t know a stranger, however she’s also very content with playing by herself. In a room filled with people you can sometimes find her make believing all by herself and having a blast. I often push her to play with other people and tell her that we play by ourselves when we’re at home and we get to play with others when we’re out and usually she agrees and runs off to find someone to play with. Well on this particular day she had a different view.
I called her over and said “Hey, how about we play with the other kids while we’re here.” And she simply said, “But I’m having fun like this.”
As much as I want her to be social, I also want her to be okay with being alone. In this moment she reminded me that it’s perfectly okay to do your own thing in the middle of the crowd. That being alone isn’t wrong and that being able to be your own best friend and “have fun like this” is just as important as making friends. May we all be as content and confident with solitude the way my three year old daughter was in that moment.
Learning from motherhood,
torrie.
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