Episode 138 | Reinvention, Reiki & Red Carpet Service with Lori Heath

In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Lori Keith—an inspiring woman who truly lives the spirit of reinvention. From working in casinos to co-owning a construction company, to building a thriving career as a hairstylist, Lori has never stopped evolving. Now, she's diving into Reiki energy healing to help others in a deeper, more meaningful way.

What I love about Lori is how she’s built a standout business by doing simple things others won’t—like offering early-morning appointments and treating every client like a VIP. We also talk about the power of daily routines, faith, physical wellness, and staying mentally strong as we grow older.

Lori’s story proves that small shifts can lead to big breakthroughs.

About Lori

Lori Heath is a devoted wife and proud mother of three boys, one of whom passed away six years ago—a loss that continues to shape her strength and perspective.

Lori enjoys an active, nature-filled lifestyle, with passions that include skiing, hiking, yoga, walking through the woods, and embracing the outdoors. She’s also a fan of healthy foods and loves to travel whenever possible.

Professionally, Lori works at Pigtails Hair Salon in Somers Point, New Jersey. Before stepping into the beauty industry, she spent 25 years as a cocktail waitress in the bustling casino scene and also owned and managed rental properties in real estate. Together with her husband, Lori has helped run a successful construction business for the past 28 years.

In her spare time, Lori finds peace and purpose in creating beautiful hydrangea gardens and vibrant flower beds. Her hands-on creativity and deep appreciation for natural beauty are reflected in every corner of her home and life.

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Speaker 1 00:00:01  Welcome to unconquerable women in business. I'm Kay Miller, also known as Muffler Mama. I've been the number one salesperson in a male dominated industry, a successful entrepreneur for over 30 years. And now my mission is to help you build a business and brand nobody else can compete with. If you're ready to break out of the pack and create your own unstoppable advantage. Stay tuned. My guests and I are here to help. And a quick heads up. I just released something brand new to help you boost your sales without being pushy or salesy. I'll tell you more about it later in the show, but if you can't wait, go to Ben. And that link is in the show notes. I'm here with Lori, Keith and Lori. Keith lives the spirit of reinvention. We met a couple of weeks ago and had a great conversation. Laurie. It was really fun to get to know you and your kind of eclectic experience and background. You currently work at Pigtails Hair Salon and we'll talk about the connection, that connection, in a moment, but your journey has taken you through multiple chapters.
Speaker 1 00:01:20  You said you have been a cocktail waitress in casinos, which worked very well as you were raising your family, your kids. You've owned real estate properties. You've partnered in a construction business with your husband for 25 years, and recently you are diving into something new, which is the study of Reiki energy healing. I can't wait to hear more about that and just following your passion to help others in really a deeper way. Lori, thank you so much and welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 2 00:01:54  Thank you. Glad to be here.
Speaker 1 00:01:57  As we were just talking about. Here's a fun fact. One of your clients you're in new Jersey is one of my clients for I do business consulting and training, and you keep Erin looking very handsome and styled. And so he always has told me how he enjoys your visits together. And you guys have great conversations. And knowing that you are always looking for more ways to, I don't know, explore possibilities for yourself. He gave you my book and Copyable Sales Secrets, I think Steve's book and Copyable.
Speaker 1 00:02:33  And now we have and Copyable you personal branding book and you just devoured those. And I know they really resonated with you. So of course, I love you already.
Speaker 2 00:02:45  And thank.
Speaker 1 00:02:47  You. So let's just talk a little bit about just briefly fill us in on your background. I forgot also to mention that you're a skier, which I'm a skier too. But talk us through a little bit about your journey so far, and then we'll get into kind of where you want to go from here.
Speaker 2 00:03:03  My journey, I guess, would be into hair. I think establishing my hair business, what I found would be one of your secrets. I learned that there is a whole little pool of women that have careers. They have kids, and some of them had a I've met them at seven. After they get their kids on the bus, they come get their hair. Then they were going to work. So I found that was a sales secret is ladies have certain desperate times. Adult meet the 10:00 11:00 appointment.
Speaker 2 00:03:36  So I really started growing a more bigger business through just that. I like doctors that come early before they see their patients to get their hair done. Lawyers one. So that has been finding a thing that nobody else wants to be at the salon at 7 or 8. So that's been helping build my hair business. I wanted to add that in there.
Speaker 1 00:04:02  And I do want to comment on that because I think people get intimidated. Intimidated by what does it mean to be in call people? What's it going to take? How many things do I have to do? And so you're boiling it down to something as simple as I'm going to meet them where they are. If they need to have their hair done at a certain time, which is outside normal hours. You doing that sets you apart from all their other choices. I think that's really the simplicity in that is really pretty brilliant.
Speaker 2 00:04:32  They love it. Doctor King she comes every Friday. Late this week. She had a meeting. So she said, can you please come at 745? But some people, there's nobody in the salon.
Speaker 2 00:04:42  Sometimes she has to bring her dog. And I've learned to get all the walls just by doing them simple little things. I'm already up before, so if I need to meet someone or 7 or 8, but I, I. I started with no clients and I built a full book. And so just by that was a shift that I did that was like a blueprint for success.
Speaker 1 00:05:07  If you're listening again, I just want to emphasize how simple a small shift can be. Now I say a small shift, but that takes a big commitment on your part. And we talked a little bit before, and I want to get into that about what you do to set up your day, to take care of yourself, to give yourself the energy that you can also be so personable that Aaron, my client, Aaron Huber at Ursuline, awesome guys, so supportive of both of us. He just raves about you. Seeing you is a highlight. You've got this great energy and yes, you go above and beyond.
Speaker 1 00:05:42  So those are all you might shrug them off even, but they're really important.
Speaker 2 00:05:47  Yeah they are. I have another lady that comes from Bala. She runs a construction Shouldn't they sell concrete out there? And she drives down. She. Can you meet me at eight? Then she goes to work. So it's really cool because it just really has helped build my business. And people like it. They like to be. I think they like the right carpet rolled out to that. And also me work at the casino. I work with high rollers, so I also learned what works with people that are I don't have money or want that extra time. So I was thinking about what I could talk about with you and would be secrets. On working in the hotel industry. Casino is how do you say that? I'm trying to think customer service, but there's a there's another name for it when you work in the hotel industry. But I blend the to make him. Do you want coffee, do you want heat or massaging them at the just little things I did because I had to do that working in the casino because the casino we had high rollers.
Speaker 2 00:06:51  They want everything very nice and efficient. So blend the two.
Speaker 1 00:06:59  Yeah, and I suppose everyone wants that. Of course, the high rollers, like it or not. I remember someone said customer service is just horrible these days. If you go somewhere like a casino and you're a high roller, which I'm not, but I've seen the kind of treatment that they get. So yes.
Speaker 2 00:07:16  Customer success.
Speaker 1 00:07:17  Is there. Yeah, you probably have stories, right?
Speaker 2 00:07:20  Oh yes. They would radio the back and she needs champagne and orange juice. Row number three. Now drop everything and bring it. But they know what they're doing. They have the most money. They learn how to keep the people in and keep keep them coming back. So I just a couple little things. I was thinking to you this week. I was like, how could I express or explain what I'm doing today, that all those years I'm in a small amount doing at work, but they like it.
Speaker 1 00:07:51  Everyone feels like they should be treated as special.
Speaker 1 00:07:54  We are all special and if you can give that personal touch and as we've talked, you've done that throughout every position that you've had and and it's made you one of the most successful wherever you go. So it's not really we say secret a lot of these things. Maybe they aren't secret, but knowing something and doing something are two different things. It takes a big commitment, right? You are committed. You are up early. You have a morning routine. You talked about protecting your energy and your mental health. All those things help you give to others. When you say.
Speaker 2 00:08:32  Yes, absolutely, 100%.
Speaker 1 00:08:35  Yeah, I was just talking about I've been sleep deprived lately and trying to figure this out. And you were talking about stuff that maybe sounds woo, but I am a believer in woo because I just don't think that we know how everything works. We don't have everything figured out. And of course, telephones or cell phones, they might be affecting our energy, but they're also sucking our attention and giving us.
Speaker 1 00:09:03  Feeding so many things into our brains that we don't really need. So keeping all those things top of mind, and I'm sure that relates to the Reiki that you're interested in studying. So why don't you talk a little bit about that? Because I'm super curious.
Speaker 2 00:09:18  As far as protecting our energy. Yes, because with the cell phones and everything coming at us, Reiki helps clear and cleanse it all off because the energy could get like stuff in certain areas that you're holding tension and your shoulders or your hips. So the Reiki, I don't know if I explain it because it's very entailed, but if you get a Reiki treatment, it helps everything flow and gets heaviness off, or just helps you move a little more freely.
Speaker 1 00:09:59  Because I'm assuming that's related to chi, which is tai chi. And actually my husband Steve has studied a lot of martial arts and eastern philosophies, and there's all that things about energy that we don't know, right?
Speaker 2 00:10:15  Yeah, it's very similar. And just or even just a nice walk in the woods with your jacket off, the little fresh, cold air.
Speaker 2 00:10:23  It'll help pop some of that off because it just it'll cleanse you. Naturally, the trees do that.
Speaker 1 00:10:31  So and I mentioned text messages. I'm sorry. What?
Speaker 2 00:10:34  The text messages were going down on the screen. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 00:10:37  Oh, I didn't see that, but yeah. And I mentioned we have, we have a very lovely forest nearby and some trails. And I was much better at taking those walks when we had dogs. And of course, dogs are really good for your energy too.
Speaker 2 00:10:52  But yes.
Speaker 1 00:10:54  Somebody was talking to me about meditating and I was saying that I've started playing the piano in the last couple of years and she said, that's meditating. It doesn't always have to be right. There's some closing your eyes and whatever.
Speaker 2 00:11:08  Some absolutely. Yes. They say just to get your mind in a would be like a flow state or a happy state. Just doing something that brings you joy helps clear your energy. Today I did step. I was like, let me do a step class that I hadn't done in years just to get my mind and get it learning something different or get the wheels turning.
Speaker 2 00:11:31  And it helps your brain. It helps bring creativity helps because you could get in a groove thinking and the same pattern, walk on the treadmill or look the same way. So when you break those patterns up, it helps your brain I get older. I'm 56. You could get grooves like a same old way of doing things. So I like to break up. Break things up to keep it fresh.
Speaker 1 00:11:58  And you mentioned that one thing you liked about the book where I mentioned neuroplasticity, that, yeah, it's like roads being built through your brain. Right. And if you the same roads get built over and over, those grooves get deeper and deeper. You're getting grand canyons on the things that you do all the time. And I remember years ago, and I'm older than you as a kid reading that, it's really good to drive different ways to work or just walk. Don't walk into the store or the same entrance every time or whatever, which I can't do that because I have to park the same place every time I go to a familiar store, so I know where my car is.
Speaker 2 00:12:37  But I learn the same things that sounds like, as I have with the different changing things up and things like that.
Speaker 1 00:12:45  Yeah, I think that's always good. I do find in talking to the women I interview on this podcast, like you, who are very successful. And one thing that's interesting about you is that you've been successful in various endeavors. Pretty much everything you've done, you've said, okay, I want to find the best way to do this. And these philosophies, things we're talking about will help you in whatever you're doing and you listening. Who knows what you're doing. We don't know what you're doing. But these these, I don't know, foundational principles that that we're talking about, that Laurie's learned about will help you. So tell me about your morning. Let's just pick one thing out. What would you say your morning routine is? Are there some things that you will not compromise on in the morning to get you started?
Speaker 2 00:13:35  Absolutely. One is Dunkin Donuts coffee for. I wake up at four, I have coffee, and I do.
Speaker 2 00:13:44  I'm faith. I do read the Bible. That is something I do every day for the last 22 years. And I read a proverb because of the wisdom King Solomon had. And those principles and the proverbs have literally changed my life. And I will not miss a day without doing that just because it's possible. Don't be lazy. Rise up early. Roll your sleeves up. Get ready for work. Don't owe no one anything. So certain things. But I didn't always feel like getting up and getting ready for work. Just to hear. Don't be lazy. Go to work. Work hard is very convicting. When I was transitioning into becoming more successful. When I was younger, I wasn't always thinking like this. So when I was getting wisdom, it really helped keep me going. Then yoga in the morning really helps. Try and keep a good work keeping my because of physical. My job is physical, so just stretching and doing the yoga. Really helps keep the body fluent and not stiff. I think even just adding those things as you get older, keeping your balance, yoga keeps you.
Speaker 2 00:14:59  You could stop falling or something, go to trip and you could catch yourself because you're already balancing yourself all the time. There's a lot of things we can do as adults. Women like older to do preventative medicine.
Speaker 1 00:15:15  I like just you might have more, but feeding your mind positives whether you use the Bible and like you said, the proverbs, which are all really I don't even know the word wholesome, very wholesome practices which our brains are bombarded with negative messages and messages we don't control from the world. And so for you to take charge of that and say, this is what I'm going to start my day with, putting my in my.
Speaker 2 00:15:42  Brain.
Speaker 1 00:15:43  And then the yoga and the fitness. I touched on that. The fact that you're a skier. And Aaron talks about that a lot because I know he would like to ski more. And I'm a skier and I'm 65. Funny story that I take a ski bus up to the mountain, Crystal mountain. We're in Seattle, Washington. Mount Rainier, so beautiful.
Speaker 1 00:16:03  And I take a ski bus every Wednesday. The bus? There are 50 people on the bus. And I'd say 5 or 6 of them are in their 80s.
Speaker 2 00:16:13  Oh. Oh. That's awesome. It is.
Speaker 1 00:16:17  It's unbelievable. And in fact, at Crystal, they had a policy for many years that if you're 70 or over, you could ski for free.
Speaker 2 00:16:25  Guess what?
Speaker 1 00:16:26  Well, they had to raise it to 80 because everybody's in their 70s.
Speaker 2 00:16:32  Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:16:33  It's just so.
Speaker 2 00:16:34  Great. That's wonderful.
Speaker 1 00:16:35  It is. And I'm I'm 65. I'm one of the I'm one of the young ones on the bus. And it just really also is such a great example of how you treat your body, how you treat your mind, what you do. It might not make a difference when you're 30 or 40 or 50, but when you get to be 51 and above, whatever, at some point in your life, it really changes your life experience, your quality of life, how you could be active and contributing.
Speaker 1 00:17:04  And like you not, you're younger than me, but you're starting in. You said you are going for your master's in Reiki, right?
Speaker 2 00:17:11  Correct? Yes.
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Speaker 2 00:18:11  With the Masters is more you can do this. I can do distant healing.
Speaker 2 00:18:15  Actually, that's a good idea. I could do a practice distant healing on you. You use thimbles? I'm not so familiar right now with all the symbols. I'm still learning them because there's a couple there. Chinese symbols and the masters. Not really. Actually. Or. I think it's just like blending the two. The one and the two, because one is hands on with the person in front of you. Level two is distant and you can use crystals. Your thoughts? It's very entangled. I don't know too much about the masters. Usually when I get to the class, my teacher, Erica, then we just. She opens a book, fills me in, and then she sends me, emails me the book after the class. So I don't know that much about the masters, but I'm super excited because each time I go to take the Reiki classes, I just go gain so much more information. But it's very big. It's like it is big. The energy healing. It's not a I can't even I need like days to even fill you in because a lot of it is my focusing focus.
Speaker 2 00:19:30  I would focus on you if it's a certain area, I have to sit there, focus on your shoulder. If I get any messages, I'm tuning in with the body. A lot of I get a lot of emotional things. When I do this from people, I get do get messages for if I have them, I give them. So it. It's a it's definitely like in you have to I have to be tuned up. I usually go walking in the woods before I do the sessions and I really decompress it. I won't see anybody last. My head is clear. I only I clear my board and totally get myself in. I guess as Zen state you would say, right? Yeah, because the energy work is I'm full. I get myself when I do my from head to toe. I'm totally like, if you were to come, I would totally present with you and focus on what you need. I, I had to walk.
Speaker 1 00:20:33  And that was unfair that I just threw that question out.
Speaker 2 00:20:36  Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:20:36  Because. Yeah. You haven't taken the Masters yet. I have to come visit, revisit this when you have gone through this. Right.
Speaker 2 00:20:44  Yeah. That feeling is. Is that like going to school and get your masters in, like, math or science? It's it's like body, soul and spirit and then and connecting with another human. And it's very involved and entailed. And you're praying for people praying for their healing or their health or their whatever is happening with them. Because a lot of people are a lot of women. I'm going to use women because that's basically I don't want to practice on men. I don't. But a lot of women have emotional trauma from their childhood or their marriages or or or whatever, you know? Oh, that's where I love to work with women, because a lot of them just need to cry and get some things out.
Speaker 1 00:21:28  I love that it's like probably partially therapy in some ways, right?
Speaker 2 00:21:33  Oh, it is so a lot of the women that are coming to these things, they need help and they're looking for answers or part of an answer.
Speaker 2 00:21:42  Working with a girl right now, and there's a lot of mom issues and they're so deep. I was getting messages about when I was working on her from She's Got to Purge. She got from the America. So she said, I got to purge this weekend, which I said, what is purge? I think about purges me clean in mind cause she's crying. It's tears. I'm going to be purging all weekend. Oh.
Speaker 1 00:22:05  I like that. There's something very healing about tears. I'm. I believe in that. And we all think, oh, don't cry. But boy, it's a good cry. There's really there's not. Your brain clears out all the spiderwebs. Right.
Speaker 2 00:22:19  Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:22:20  So. Well that that is really interesting. I wanted to mention that I have worked with a hypnotherapist who's become a friend, and I met her actually, my husband Steve met her in some online business group. She's in Berlin, Germany. And her name is dad. Yeah. And so we've done hypnotherapy over zoom, and she has helped me with sleep issues, which, as I said, I'm still having some of those, but it has helped.
Speaker 1 00:22:50  And then also not that weight loss is the most important thing, but I just had I wanted to lose £10 and I just couldn't do it. And we did a session. And just where she put me in a state of relaxation. I know people are spoilt. They're so scared off by the word hypnosis or hypnotherapy because they don't want to bark like a dog. But just planting those seeds. And then she made a recording, which I listened to a lot, and that has really helped shift the way I think and my results. And like you said, you could do this. What you do, I'm sure it's ideally would be in person, but you could with technology today. Do some of this remotely. So that's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 00:23:36  Yeah, absolutely. Yes. I've had it done remotely five years ago, and it was actually better remote by my teacher, Erica, than it was in is in person and she likes it better doing it remote. She said she can focus more and not be like, because what happened, what happens is you get talking versus just being able to hone in on the person and not actually voice, but I do.
Speaker 2 00:24:06  I like it both ways. I'd like to do it, but I'm learning the distant healing. They call it distant healing. Reiki.
Speaker 1 00:24:13  It's it opens up a whole new world, literally.
Speaker 2 00:24:17  Yeah, yeah, it is definitely.
Speaker 1 00:24:21  Speaking of Zen. And I do like that, that Zen word and feeling. Because I'll tell you, I mentioned piano, piano. I can literally sit at the piano and I look at the clock. And an hour has gone by. It's just it takes me somewhere totally different. And with music being generated electronically through our iPhones and speakers and all that, there's something about that vibrating of the piano that's really just. Oh, I don't know. It's hard to explain, but I think you understand. I think so. Skiing does that for me, and I'm sure it does that for you. So tell me about skiing, because I could tell you about how I feel about it, but I want to hear from you about all the things, you know, between nature and the physical movement and all the things that make skiing just really magical.
Speaker 2 00:25:13  Oh, I've been scammed since I'm three, so ever since I can remember I've been skiing. But one of the most fascinating things I feel is when you get to the top and you can see, I think from where I ski at Piko Vermont. You can see five states radius around. And it is I can see that white mountains. I think it's Mount Washington on a good clear day. So that alone says error. My sales were. Just I don't know, the whole winter or do that. It's just I think how wonderful I like I think I'm the like the luckiest person in the world just to be able to go and do that and experience seeing. Beautiful thing this week. We went this weekend and there was an ice storm in Vermont and really took off like, oh my gosh, I said we could get killed on this. It was so everything looked like blown glass. We walked through the two mile, two hour hike, one up. Everything looked like it was glass. It was so gorgeous.
Speaker 2 00:26:26  I get, I did I was a high, natural high. I don't do drugs. I don't drink anything. I'm do I don't even take an angle. So to me that just it is one of the most precious things I think I've ever experienced. Just being in the forest and seeing God's nature and all for the hike in the rain. We hike in the snow and I ski and all this, but I just because we went up there and everything was just like glass over. It was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 00:26:52  Wow, that sounds amazing. It sounds like something. As many times as you have been up there, you've never seen something quite like that.
Speaker 2 00:27:00  Not like that. I've never been up there in an ice storm. Every trees were breaking, lines were down. We lost the electric. But back to the skiing, I mean skiing. I love it because I can go fast. I I'm 56 now. Like I can still do these wonderful things and just have fun. The kids can come. You can do it with your family.
Speaker 2 00:27:21  I do it with my brothers, my sister in law's friends. It's just something that can keep your family together. Have food y'all. We hang out in the house, we play games, we go eat my grandkids, we all come in. It's a wonderful family thing to do. My parents raised me doing it. I raised my own kids and now my grandkids are coming. So it's something beautiful and wonderful that you can do. But also it's a sport and that everybody can do it. To me, it's one of the most best things you could do as an adult with your as I'm going to go alone or with your family, right?
Speaker 1 00:28:02  You have a big advantage. As I said, I ski with people who are 80, in their 80s and one gal. I just gotten to know her. This has been a great experience for me too, because I think we all make judgments about people, and I see someone on the bus who might be hunched over and I'm thinking, oh, I hope I don't get stuck.
Speaker 1 00:28:21  Don't listen to this people on my ski bus. I hope I don't get stuck skiing with that person. Then you get to know them. And I can tell people who have skied their whole lives, and sometimes they are just fabulous skiers and whether or not they are. It's really been eye opening for me to go beyond my first impression, because everyone has a story. And meeting new people is just so fascinating, and letting go of your first impression and finding out that out, but also that physical part I wanted to throw in that I do spin class. Yes, I do, and I don't know if I can really claim that right now, but before Covid, I was going three times a week to the gym early, super early, insanely early. My friend got me into it and I thought she was crazy. And I started going at 5:45 a.m. and I got hooked. And I tell you mentally, my mental health was never better. Then Covid shut that down. They don't. They lost instructors.
Speaker 1 00:29:22  So I'm still I'm using it as an excuse probably to, but I still haven't truly gotten back into it. But that physical movement, which skiing includes that to your heart, is racing from fear and exhilaration. But also it's work. If you're skiing, right, you're not just sliding down the hill. It's a lot of work. And I'm not a great skier like you are, but it's still everyone can enjoy it. I love that you've just got so many, oh, I don't know. So many really interesting components of who you are, your experience and how you have found a way to really stand out. Be someone that Aaron, our mutual connection, said, okay, you've got to talk to Laurie. She's fascinating. She does. She excels at everything she does. She loves life. She cares about people. Those are some of the things that he told me about you that that make you special. And so I want to honor that. And I want to remind the listener that all these little things that Laurie is talking about, from reading the Bible in the morning and walking in the woods and appreciating family and skiing those types of things, they really all add up and they change your life.
Speaker 2 00:30:38  Absolutely. They changed my life. Just me, little by little, shifting my mindset, doing these things. My husband and I, we like probably like everybody started out with nothing or and we had some couple businesses. The one business, we bought it, we went in partnership with some friends and that kind of went, didn't go so well. So when you burn a bridge or you lose financial, we had invested like our life savings with these people to open up this gym. And I remember crying. I couldn't even put gas in my car for a year. And when I started applying, like the Bible principles, how to get out of that? Also, Dave Ramsey to give him a little shout out. His principles. It took about ten years, but we are debt free. Mortgage free. And I'm not trying to boast, but we probably more than anything. Trying to give people like hope. It'd be really row your boat and really dig your heels in and do the work, because I feel like that's basically what I had to do, is almost like getting through all that and getting back on the other side of all that, and being financially free and thriving in my business and still working out and still skiing and doing things that I love and enjoy.
Speaker 2 00:32:02  And it's it's been a really good process, but some of it wasn't always easy, very painful in the beginning to turn the ships around and you go from one one career or business. Some ups and downs, but definitely Walking in the woods. Skiing is a really good antidote. USA to help fix negative situations or when you're walking through something negative to give it a little upswing. Or maybe.
Speaker 1 00:32:39  Go ahead. What?
Speaker 2 00:32:41  For me, it is. I mean, some people like the golf. I'm not a golfer, but I'll go just hang out in the trees and walk. Well.
Speaker 1 00:32:52  Defeat isn't the end. A lot of people are are defeated and remain defeated or bitter or whatever. But life buoy is full of ups and downs. Just the fact that we are living a lot longer 100 years ago or whatever, the life expectancy was so much shorter. We have so many more opportunities. UPS and downs will come with that, and how you handle that is really going to determine where you end up in quality of life.
Speaker 1 00:33:19  So Lori, I so appreciate you sharing all of that, and we'll have to come back and revisit our conversation when you've gotten more into the Reiki. I'm very interested and curious about that. Meanwhile, I will put some links to get Ahold of Lori. Follow you. You said LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram. Is there anything else that you want to me to include in the show notes, or is that pretty good? Pigtails. Pigtails?
Speaker 2 00:33:45  Maybe? Tails if they're in those Jersey shore area pigtails.
Speaker 1 00:33:51  Okay, that sounds great. And by the way, I'm going to have to throw one last thing in. You were made for hairstyling because you have amazing hair.
Speaker 2 00:34:00  Just hair.
Speaker 1 00:34:01  Lovely. You're lovely inside and out, as Aaron said. And Lori, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much for being on the show.
Speaker 2 00:34:09  Thank you. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:34:11  Thanks for listening to this episode. See you next time. And always remember to be unstoppable.