Take Risks, Prioritize Your Life, and Slay Your Goals with Sandi Glandt

0:00Not all adults know what is right for you. meaning like my kids if they're going to go up to an adult and ask them a question just because they're an adult doesn't mean that they're right like which is so true i mean we could go real deep here with politics and all the things we see on tv i mean we could go real deep and you got to be able to think for yourself because there's so much noise social media any kind of media really and you have to have the judgment to say this seems off like this is not feeling right to me and being able to make your own decision so i think that starts at a young age being able to pick up on those things, being able to make your own judgment calls and trusting yourself.

0:35Like I trust myself, even when I make a wrong decision, I will get myself back on track. I'm on this journey with me each week. When you join me, you're going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow. I'm ready for my closeup. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week. Well, this is a second time guest. We have not had her on in years and I ran into her the other day. I'm so excited for you to meet her. Okay, Sandy Glenn is a high-performance productivity coach, author, and TV host. Sandy is a high-performance best-selling author, Mrs.

1:08International 2022, TV host on CW's Connect Network, business owner, wife, and mom. She understands the challenges of juggling a major full plate. She's made it her mission to help modern women manage their time effectively. Really, anybody manages their time effectively. Through practical time management strategies, she empowers people to take control of their schedules, prioritize what matters most, and transform overwhelm and burnout into focus and fulfillment. She's the author of the best-selling book, Slay Your Day, How to Get More Done, Become Ultra-Productive, and Unlock Your Full Potential.

1:37Each week, she shares actionable tips, tools, and insights to help her audience build thriving businesses, stay present with their families, and prioritize self-care. Her clients consistently praise her for helping them turn their busy lifestyles into systems of massive productivity. They credit her guidance for creating the structure and clarity needed to effectively manage their time and achieve both professional and personal success. She holds the title of Mrs. International 2022-2023, leveraging her global platform to champion the S3 framework system strategy and support. Can't wait to get into that today.

2:08She's a sought-after speaker, mom, wife. She lives in Florida and, as I mentioned, is a friend of mine. So, Sandy, I'm so excited you could be here with us today. Yay! It is so good to be back with you. Oh my gosh, it's been a minute. All right, so talk to us about what's been going on. We only got to catch up for a few minutes the other day and you now have your own show. You just walked the catwalk for, what was it? Swim week. Miami Swim Week, that's right. Like you're taking risk after risk and going to the next level. So get us up to speed on all things that you've been doing. Yeah, oh my gosh, Heather.

2:43There's so many things going on just in the pipeline and really to bring the women, you know, into the community and present others with other opportunities. I think that, you know, before I get into it, unless we see other women doing the things that we have on our hearts and on our minds and whether we're secretly journaling about them and wanting to do them, like when I see someone else going after something and accomplishing it, that gives me, you're like, wow, that is so exciting. That gives me hope, inspiration, motivation that I can do it too. So I hope that I can be that to others. And, you know, I've seen, I've seen women in my community that are like, and this was such a compliment, but it also goes to show that like when there's women leading the way and you know that you can do it too, anything's possible.

3:29So one of the women had said, you are my vision board. And I was like, what? Like, not only is that a compliment, but I don't really stop to think about these things. You know, I feel like I, I set my mind on something, I go and I do it. And then I'm like onto the next thing. So it was, it was a nice kind of like moment to stop and hear that and be like, wow, like, yeah, I have done these things, but even more so than doing the things I love that I get to show women that they get to do it too. Yeah. And for everyone listening, I think this is a really good point when you get caught up in your own mind and you're like, Oh, I'm people are going to think I'm full of myself.

4:06If I post about, I spoke at this event or I wrote this book or I did this podcast, stop for a minute and think about what Sandy just said, instead of making it about you, think about the person that you might actually, you could change one person's life. That woman that you just gave as an example, you're her vision board. That's the reason to go for the next thing. That's the reason to share it with other people. Too often people are getting caught up in their heads of what will others think about me instead, make it about that one person you can help. And I helped so many people, Sandy. One of the things that I've been blown away is what an incredible wife, mother, as well as this owner you are and bringing all of those things together and really doing it in a way that you make it look so easy.

4:49How do you do that? You know, it's funny. I was with a friend, a mutual friend of ours yesterday. We were talking about this and, uh, you know, I think there's seasons and you have to honor the seasons because I surely was not going after, let me walk in Miami swim weekend, going after Mrs. International when I was like having a newborn at home and up all night and like really, really in the thick of it. It's a different in the thick of it now because yes, they're still little, but they're like off to camp and they're in school and it just looks a little bit different. So I think just honoring the seasons and knowing what I'm capable of because some seasons are heavier with what my kids need from me or my husband needs from me or travel and just looking at like, okay, what is my bandwidth?

5:28Because we all have big goals, but like, does that make sense right now? I actually had a call with my coach, with my fitness coach, which we'll get into. and a little bit about all the things that are coming up. And I had a call with her over the weekend. And I was like, do you think I said, because I told her all the things that I have going on, I was like, I am just looking at my bandwidth right now. And I said, I want to make sure if I'm going to go into this, I can give it 100%. Because I don't go into something halfway, like I go in, I go 100%. And there is no other option. She's like, well, you could go on stage and just do it for the photos.

6:02I'm like, I ain't just doing this with the photos. So I almost had to have a reality check with myself, which actually, and I'll tell you kind of what my breakthrough was here in the past when I was competing, I competed on stage in December, won my pro card with a WBFF. And now I'm competing. This is something coming up in August for the next show, which is like the world WBFF, the biggest show they have. So I'm competing in that here in Miami in August. And so I kind of had this like, you know, I mean, I don't know if it was an aha moment or like a come to Jesus moment, but I was like, is this something that I'm capable of doing right now with all the other things going on?

6:44Because again, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to go in a hundred percent. And I think the mind shift for me here, Heather was, I was so used to like getting up at 530 and getting my workouts in early and then like having to work all day and then be with the kids and then be with the husband and then work out again. Like it is a very grueling schedule for competition. And there's two months you're like hot and heavy and in it and like laser focused. And I kind of had a flip of the switch here where I was like, you know, I don't need to get up at five 30 some days. Yes. Depending on the schedule, but like if I get up at six 30, is it going to kill me?

7:20No. So I literally had to look at, okay, my body, because I'm lifting heavier because I'm on lower calories because the schedules are shifting and changing. Like I have to evolve with it. And I just can't keep going five 30. I mean, I was still getting eight hours of sleep, but my body is sore today, Heather from a workout two days ago. Like it is intense. It is next level. So I think to circle this back around, you've got to know your seasons and honor where you're at because you can't go all in a hundred percent. If you're trying to be a hundred percent in 10 different things. Yeah, that sounds incredibly intense to me, but I am much like, I've never done any type of competition like what you've done.

8:01And one of my best friends has done it and I've been really close with her through it. It is a lot of people will get that and be like, oh, that's so flippant. That's just about looking pretty. No, it is, it's not, it's so funny because when my dearest friends competed in the same thing that you competed in very similar years ago, and won as well, just like you and plays to win just like me. And I was so dedicated to it that it almost became, her husband was like, this is almost an illness. Like you're eating so clean. You're not like enjoying life. He didn't like it, but for her, she felt it was, she wanted to prove to herself she could do it.

8:39And anytime you do something like that, you're going to build confidence because you're going to realize a new unlock. Like that's something I could do that I didn't know I had within me. What else? It's like summer growth right now that I'm in where like, I'm, I'm, I'm playing pickleball for the person. I'm doing all these different things because not for anything else other than I want to see how I can, who am I going to be on the other side of it? Like, what can I unlock about myself? And then learning, there's so much out there that you don't know. You might love, you might mean that you might love, but you don't know until you start stepping into the uncertainty and it can be incredibly scary on that front end, which I'm sure you had trepidation on the front end.

9:20But the other thing that I hear you saying is you're also giving yourself grace during it. And I think that's important things we can do. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that, you know, my mentality is usually all in or, or out, like there's no middle grounds, but I think because there's so many moving pieces, I have to make sure I'm prioritizing the main things, which is always going to be my family first. And then also having in there, my role that I play as a business owner, my role that I play as a friend, my role that I play, my family and my grandmother is going through some health things right now.

9:51So making sure I'm flying back to, you know, Philly on Sunday and Monday for like a one day trip. Like there's just a lot of moving pieces. And so for me, I'm like, I want to be able to show up in a way that feels good and feels right and not feel like I'm sacrificing what's the most important to me in the process, because then what's the point?

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13:47Go to someone who knows that department. Right. So like for me, I had never competed in a pageant before. I hired someone that had competed in that pageant. I never had competed in the WBFF before. I hired a coach that had competed in that system before. So I'm going to the people that are kind of like the keys to help me unlock that level of success where I've never been. So you have to humble yourself and be like, I don't know it all. In order for me to get to that level, there's some things or actually a lot of things I I have to learn in the process to become that version. So in the process of doing that, I have to learn from someone who's been there, done it and can show me the way.

14:27Too often for everyone listening right now, people understand. Well, of course, if you're in the NBA, you have a coach. Well, if you're in the NFL, you have a coach. If you're a professional athlete, you have a coach. But too often people, especially if you came up in corporate America, because coaching wasn't popular when I was in corporate America, right? I've never heard about people hiring coaches. It just wasn't happening. There might be, you had a sales manager or whatever, and you're supposed to learn whatever from them. And that was it. But the reality is there are coaches for everything.

14:58And the bottom line is never take advice or direction from someone who hasn't been where you want to go. Do your due diligence. Make sure that people have done the things you want to do. And then they're going to give you the roadmap and cheat sheet to get there a lot faster than they did. So tell us some of the things that you are coaching people on some of the challenges you see them facing. Yeah, so a lot of my ladies, whether I'm working with them one-on-one or in my high performance academy, they are going after really big business goals. They're also going after really big personal goals.

15:26So some of them are doing things as like building communities, right? Like they may be tapping into another level of building out their communities. And they're like, Sandy, I see what you're doing with events or coaching or your courses. And I want to do something similar, maybe different audience, but similar in the sense of like what they're building out. Same thing with also in the space of just the pageant world. I have pageant clients that are moms, that are wives, that are business owners, but they want a coach specifically for the pageant world. But the common thread with all my clients is they have really big goals and they don't want to lose the main thing in the process, meaning themselves, their families, like what is at the root of that, right?

16:08So it's learning how to implement. You mentioned my S3 framework. So that's the system strategy and support. building in the right systems, building a strategy. Cause sometimes people go in, they're like, I have these really big goals, but there's no strategy behind it. There's no system behind it. Like I want my business working and operating for me when I'm not working and operating in my business. So those are things like automations, delegations, building out your team, your CRM, your funnel, like all the things that, you know, some people might be listening and like, what is she even talking about?

16:39This is like another language, but it's essentially just building your business in a way that supports your life versus having everything in your business control you, where you go, what you do, when you can vacation or not. It's allowing you to build a life. So build a life that you get to live with whatever you want to do, your family, your friends, your travel, your big goals that you want to achieve, because we also got to go out there and make an impact, but also make an income and doing it in a way that feels right, that you get to honor all of those areas. One of the things that blows me away about you is the wife and mother that you are on top of all of the others, you know, personal success that you have, because you don't, oftentimes my friends are either stay at home moms or they have businesses, but it's very rare that I see someone finding success on both sides, probably because it just takes more time.

17:26It's harder, et cetera. You know, it definitely isn't, it's not that common, right? So one of the things that I've noticed about you is you time block. What role has that played in you being efficient and effective on both sides. Oh my gosh. It's everything. I, I so funny. I just had a conversation with my brother a couple of days ago and he's like, you schedule everything. And I'm like, I schedule like when I shower, like you were to look at my calendar, like my, cause my team, you know, they're in my calendar, they're in my schedule and everything from the workout is in there to when I'm showering, when I'm taking the kids to school or picking them up when I'm eating, like I know to some people, this sounds extreme and I'm a very visual person.

18:04So I need to see like on my schedule, on my calendar, like where are these chunks of time, you know? And so that alone allows me to get laser focused on like being in the work, like really in like the deep work of the business, but also having the fun time, you know, having the date night with my husband or going and playing. We're like, yesterday we did a fun day, a pool day on a Tuesday with a friend and her daughter and my boys. And like that was scheduled on the calendar for like two months, you know? So everything is on there and I know it sounds crazy, but it's again, that is one of the systems that allows me to do all of these things and make it all work and not be so sporadic.

18:47I mean, I used to live in a world many years ago where everything was fly by the seat of your pants. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. And that was just like too chaotic for me. I hated living there. There was nothing productive about that. And so it's shifted into what it is now. And this is why I'm able to say yes to the right opportunities because I know where I can fit it and what makes sense. Well, one of the other things I love about you into this the other day was most people, myself included, you see things as like, Like there's just norms that you accept, right? Like going to this school or your kid in this program or like whatever, this is the way people do it.

19:28You are constantly re-imagining or trying to think, is there another or a better way to do it? When you're talking about the boys with school, like, is there a different way to do this? And I just like that idea of challenging, you know, the standard thinking, the standard way of everybody, of everybody doing something. What is it about you? Or like, why have you found success in that way? because it seems to really be working for you. Yeah, I think, you know, I grew up with an entrepreneurial family. Even from a very young age, it was never like, let someone tell you what to do. Like you go figure it out.

20:00You know, like that might be one way that works for someone, but it can work differently for you. So I think it's funny because I teach our kids this. Like I tell them, and look, my parents may not agree with me here, but this is what we are talking to our kids about, which is like, not all adults know know what is right for you. Meaning like my kids, if they're going to go up to an adult and ask them a question, the answer that they get probably, and most of the case, most likely will not be the answer. I'm like, just because they're an adult doesn't mean that they're right. Like, which is so true.

20:33I mean, we could go real deep here with politics and all the things we see on TV. I mean, we could go real deep and you've got to be able to think for yourself because there's so much noise, social media, any kind of media really. And you have to have the judgment to say, this seems off. Like this is not feeling right to me and being able to make your own decision. So I think that starts at a young age, being able to pick up on those things, being able to make your own judgment calls and trusting yourself. Like I trust myself, even when I make a wrong decision, I will get myself back on track.

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22:53So is that intuition, like for everyone listening, like how do you, because for many people, that's a contrarian way of thinking. I know that you know that, but even for me, like when we talked specifically about your son's schools and you're like, I was kind of re-imagining like, Is there a different way to do this? And I thought, wow, I never stopped to think about that. And I really love the way you were seeing it. So how do you help coach people into that different way of thinking? Yeah, well, I think number one, you have to know yourself first. I think that, you know, personally, I've done a lot of work on myself to know my personality.

23:28I know what I'm sticky in. Like I know the bullheadedness in me, like the things that I know that are probably an asset and a liability, some of these, you know, things like I've got to know myself. And I think each of us have to know ourselves well enough to know where our strengths and our weaknesses are. So that being said, like, if you're going to make a decision, whether it's for yourself, your business, your kids, whatever area of life it is for you, you've got to know yourself well enough to know where those strengths and weaknesses are. And I'm very lucky because I have a partner that sees the world in a similar way that I do.

24:00That's not willing to stay in a box. Like we're not, we're like, okay, this might make sense for people that are putting their kids in a public school, private school, whatever it is. We've done that. We've tried it. And we're like, you know what, let's try something else. And again, not to say that our way is the way of doing things for us. This is what we've decided is right for us. So again, being able to challenge the norm, trust yourself, and also know that like, you can pivot if you've made a wrong decision. And you're like, oh my gosh, like, this was not the right decision. Like, again, perfect example, we had the kids in a, in kind of like a tutoring homeschooling thing last year.