Success Looks Different In Every Season

Motherhood & entrepreneurship both require us to constantly evolve. The challenge is learning how to embrace the season we're in instead of comparing ourselves to who we used to be.

In this episode of The Mompreneur Collective, I sit down with Owner of Collab Beauty Lounge, Taylor Credeur, to talk about the many seasons of motherhood and how they've shaped her business journey. From building her business with one child to leading a thriving team while raising two children, she shares how her priorities, schedule, leadership style, and definition of success have shifted over time. 

We discuss the sacrifices that sometimes come with choosing presence over productivity, why every season requires something different from us, and the importance of giving ourselves grace as our lives and businesses evolve. We also dive into delegation, building a supportive team, creating systems that support your family, setting boundaries, and the reality that moms were never meant to do it all alone. 

This conversation is a reminder that growth doesn't always have to feel like expansion...sometimes growth looks like slowing down, adjusting your expectations, and honoring what matters most right now. 

If you're navigating a season of change, feeling stretched between motherhood and business, or wondering how to balance ambition with presence, this episode is for you. 

Because the season you're in wont last forever and neither will the version of you that's moving through it. 💛

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Welcome back to the Mompreneur Collective. I'm your host and certified life and business coach, Jamie Smith. And if you're a mom who's building a business while trying to balance raising that family, or maybe you have dreams of starting your own business one day, you're in the right place. Each episode I talk with other mompreneurs who share their stories with you. The highs, the lows, the lessons, all of it. And today I'm extra excited because our guest is someone I've actually previously worked with, and I always knew she was destined for great things. She was always a really great leader. So it's no surprise to me at all that I'm sitting down with her here today. Her name is Taylor Crater, and she's the owner of Collab Beauty Lounge in Lafayette, Louisiana. And without further ado, let's welcome her onto the show. Taylor, I'm so happy to have you here today.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Yes, yes. So I said it before you came on, but I'm just extra excited today because of the fact that you and I used to work together. I think it just feels sort of full circle. I always knew that you were just going to do really great things in your life, both personally and professionally, and seeing you grow as not only a mom, but as a business owner and me being able to sort of witness that through social media like the rest of the world. I don't get to see you all the time, but I feel like I've been able to sort of have a front row seat in that aspect. And it's been beautiful to see you grow into the woman that you've become, the mom you've become, and the the business owner that you've become.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

Thank you. I appreciate that. I attribute a lot of my growth in my early days to you. You were you were our leader. Um and it felt like when we went on the road, like I was taken under your wing about to experience the life coaching before, you know, the life coaching.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Yeah. It's so true though. I mean, I tell people all the time that that career is where I found my passion for coaching. It's where I I felt like I, you know, I was like, what what what is the one part of my job I love the most? And it was those moments that I had with you girls and with other leaders in the company where I could just help you grow into your own leader. And so thank you for saying that because it's very fulfilling for me. It was fulfilling for me then and is still fulfilling for me now as a coach. But yeah, so today's episode, y'all, is gonna be all about how as moms we go through all these different seasons. And I actually uh jotted down a quote that I wanted to share in this episode today because it's a quote that I feel like I think about all the time and that I share with other moms all the time. And it's just fitting. And I don't know who said the quote, so I can't attribute anyone in this moment, but I'm gonna read it. No season of motherhood is forever, and that is both a relief and a heartbreak at the same time. 100%. But yeah, that quote made me think all about this conversation today and just how we go through so many different seasons. And yeah, it can just be like so bittersweet. Um, it's such a bittersweet journey overall. I feel like I've used the word bittersweet as a mom more than I've used ever.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

Honestly, even as a second time doing it, it's still bittersweet. I I didn't know the first time how fast it was gonna go. And even knowing this time, okay, this season is only so long, it goes so fast, it still flew by, it's still bittersweet. It's you are in the trenches in the beginning. You really forget that as the years go by later. But once you relive it, it's hard. Um, but it doesn't last. And it's really the not the best part, but the little squishy feet. And that that is the best part for me. The snuggles, the kiss, being their their whole world. Their world gets a lot bigger as they get bigger.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Yeah, yeah. I'm I feel like I'm going through that transition of my daughter's world getting a lot bigger right now as we wean off of nursing, and she's just turning two years old and she's becoming way more independent. And I'm seeing her sort of, you know, begin to navigate the world as her own person aside from me. And it is it, yes, bittersweet. It has been very bittersweet, but so, so special. Motherhood is something that I just um I encourage everyone to try that can. It's been the most life-changing thing in the best possible way. I don't know if you're crazy.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

You really don't know that kind of love until you have it, that what they say is true.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Yeah, so true. Well, Taylor, I want you to just sort of take us all the way back, right? We're talking about the different seasons that we go through today. So I want you to take us on a journey and just think back to that season of life of motherhood where you just had the one kid, and you know, things are things look much different now.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

So I was strong-willed enough to open a business, and I was able to carry that through, even I think because she started school and I needed a project, I needed something to do with my days that no longer revolved around her. So it was perfect. I dove in, I'm a workaholic, I was there all the time. She she had aftercare for, you know, to be with other kids. And I was at work. I loved it. I loved the adult conversations and meeting new people. And I'm in a world where I make people feel beautiful. I think that's awesome. And that's why I do it. And seeing their faces light up afterwards was so fulfilling in those days when I needed something so badly.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Um, and now I have two kids. I have a two-year-old at home right now. I'm still not fully back at work, so my season is so different. Um, going from the one kid, I was able to, I guess, not be at home as often. And now that wasn't an option for this baby. She wouldn't take a bottle, she wouldn't take a nunie. She doesn't want a babysitter, she wants me. So I'm at home. And I had to come to terms with that, which was hard and terrifying as a a workaholic, a proud one.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

Um, yeah. But I know it's a season, and I know how fast it went the first time, and how quickly she's gonna be in school. This August, maybe we are looking at Mother's Day out programs. I need to dip my toes two days a week. Um so many things that it's very different.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Yeah. Well, you just spoke to so many things that I'd like to like to talk to. So you brought up how you know you just really needed something else outside of motherhood. And I always think that that is something I just want to, I guess, highlight because I feel like so many moms can, in a sense, feel guilty for that in some way. Absolutely. Or feel bad, you know, for their ambition or their desire to want something outside of that role of being mother. And like you said, it was you making other women feel beautiful, filled up your cup in a way that allows you to be a better mother for her and a better woman as a whole. And, you know, you mentioned how in this season now, whereas for the first child, you were able to sort of go to work and she was okay without you. This one's a little bit more of a, you know, maybe stage for a clinger. Right. And she needs you a little bit more. And so what you did and what we have to do as mothers is is sacrifice, pivot. But sacrifice, right? So you you made a huge sacrifice to, okay, I can't be the workaholic that you said I take so much pride in being. I love to go to work and be purposeful and go make impact in other women's life, but my daughter needs me. She does. And so you made that sacrifice willingly, knowingly, within your mind and heart that you know what, this is okay. I'm gonna let this be okay because it's only a season and it's gonna go so fast. And you get to go back to being the workaholic that you want to be.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

And I'll miss this season when I'm out of it. I know. So I'm trying to be intentional and mindful about that every day, even though I feel guilt that I'm not there, that my salon manager is having to do more of my my job, what I consider to be what I should be doing. But yeah, I know I'll be back and I know I'll be better. And I know that my daughter will have these memories forever.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

Yeah, 100%. What speak to that? I mean, how how did you go about making that transition? You know, because that could be difficult when you're someone who's working full time to all of a sudden you're like, oh, my kid needs me to be at home full time. I mean, you had to call in like support, you probably you had to delegate, you had to so what does that look like?

SPEAKER_00 9:14

100% and a partner that I know not everyone gets that luxury, but it it is something I rely on heavily. I could not do this without my fiance Thomas, without the grandmas who keep her two days a week so that I can go work part-time right now. If you if you can have a village that is, it makes a difference. It makes the whole difference.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

I was reading something this morning, and maybe it was just a quote as I was trying to look up that quote that I shared at the beginning of the episode, that it was just like you're you're doing the job that a whole village used to do. So acknowledge as a mother that you are carrying a lot. You are the table.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

You don't bring anything to the table, you don't have to, because we are the table. We hold everything else up all the time, the mental load. I saw a a quote the other day that said, I laid out on sticky notes on our kitchen counter everything from the mental load, the doctor's appointments, the phone calls you need to make back. When are they going to grandma's house? Where is that toy? Where are these shoes? Laid it all out. It took up the whole kitchen counter, and that's what we're processing on every day. Invisible tabs. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

Yeah, that's what um I would call a brain dump, but with sticky note style. Like I think it would be satisfying to see. And then I wonder how terrifying it would be to my partner. Yeah, probably terrifying, 100% terrifying. Yeah. He'd be like, seriously, just calm down. My husband Jordan, he actually said something to me the other day. He said, Babe, you have restless brain syndrome. I said, That is the most true thing you have ever said. I was like, Oh, can I coin that? Is that a term? Because it's so true. Like, there's just, I feel like it's so rare a moment where I'm able to sit down and just like calmly or peacefully sit without feeling some sense of urgency around what's the next thing that I need to do, whether it be for my daughter, for my business. Yeah. Um, so yeah, restless brain syndrome. That's what us moms struggle with.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

I get up at six just to have an hour of peace and quiet before my kids wake up. Yeah. I mean from ten to I stay up from 10 to 11 so that I can read a book. It's scheduled, it's been sold in.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Yes. But kudos to you for doing that and for recognizing that these are the hours that I can be more intentional with my time than I can have for me, instead of just saying I don't have enough time in the day and either sleeping in and not capitalizing on that early morning time. Sometimes I do. And we have to sometimes. Sometimes I do too. We're human. But the intention is there, and it seems like you have a good like level of like, this is what I need for me. So I'm gonna make it important.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

Someone asked me that at the salon the other day, like, how how do I juggle oil? And I said, I have to write it down. I have to on Mondays, this is what I'm doing, and it looks very different from what I'm doing on Tuesdays. And when I'm at work on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, that is I cut everything else off from the world. At that point, I give it up to my village. If they need me, they will call, but I'm I'm not checking in. I mean, that sounds bad to say, but I'm at work. I am intentional with my clients, I'm there for them. I'm the therapist at that point. So my brain load is off. Um, but then Thursdays, I kick it back on. I'm mom again, I'm here. My salon manager, I have to delegate and let them handle things that I know they can handle, which was hard at first.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

But I love my team. I could not do it without them. They are a huge part of the village.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

What do you think was the hardest part for you with that? Because I feel like, I mean, that's such a big part of what's allowed you to shift into this season of being a little more hands-off with your business because of that village you have at work holding up the four walls for you. So talk about what maybe the challenging part was for you with the delegation aspect and having to be more hands-off.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Having to be hands-off the worst of it came when I was at home recovering from baby number two, and state board popped into our salon and they had my team had to take over and I had to watch from the cameras while they went through the motions of something they've never done before. Yeah, but they did it like it was nothing. And that was the moment I knew I could trust these things with them. Yeah. And that they would step up for me in that moment. They're my they've become to be my best friends.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. And I think too, that's an example of how like it's not gonna feel easy. It's not gonna feel good the first time you have to let someone else on your team step up and sort of, you know, put your hat on. But when you can trust and then of course validate, I always talk about that as a leader, like trust but validate. Like you want to show them that you trust them, but of course, always go in on the back end and make sure that it's done the right way or up to your standards. And that that opportunity for positive reinforcement is there to show them, like, thank you so much for stepping up for being. You did it right. You did a good job amazing.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Them doing something about their wheelhouse.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

And and you've now built like your own confidence in them and your ability to delegate again or you know, know that they're gonna be able to handle it because you let them spread their wings, even if you were sort of forced into it. Yeah. Um I feel like much of us are kind of forced into that first step of like you're you're essentially backed into a corner in some way, right? Like, whether it be, oh, my kid, I I have to go, you know, I've talked to moms where it's like they just their kids' sick. So all of a sudden they have to stay home with their kid. And now what? They have someone in their business has to step up. And so they're now forced to that delegation point or to that point where they have to try and trust someone else. But it opens up a world of opportunity for them usually where they're like, wow, if I could do more of this, how could this change my world?

SPEAKER_00 15:18

It's with my schedule being so limited. I'm two, three days a week right now. Anything that a client needs outside of that, I needed my team, I needed to be able to rely on them that those days they can pick up that client. That's that's a huge part of the business. Collab, we all collaborate with each other. We're all independently our own business. They are all their own boss. I'm I'm merely a landlord for them realistically, but they are my team. I can rely on them for things like that. And that's so freeing.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Well, that's that also speaks volumes to the kind of people that you recruited to collaborate with.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Yes, that's a huge part of our process. And uh I will not sacrifice that. I will not hire out of necessity or just anybody who wants to come in. They have to mesh well with the people around them because we're together a lot. And sometimes we need things from each other that in that type of business structure isn't necessarily like common, I guess, in our industry, but it works for our team. And so I know our people will find us.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Yeah, absolutely. It made me think about one of my old bosses, mentors. He said, You never hire for the need, you always hire for the vision. And I've always remembered that. And it sounds like you're doing a great job of that.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

I've learned when I first started, I just hired everyone, anyone I could get my hands on. And I learned how hard it is to manage people. That's a job all in itself, and it's not one that I wanted at that moment, so I wasn't the best at it. And I've had to, I guess, trim my team down to this core group of girls. They are everything. Share a little bit more about your business. We uh just made a little over a year in our new location. Uh we are now in the center of Lafayette. Thank you. I love, I love it. Um the creativity that I see in there, which is such a huge part of aesthetics. We get to be creative and we do makeup, we do eyelashes and brows, and it's it takes a certain side of the brain to work at what we do. So finding a group of people that will share that same vision and that creativity and and fun at work. We get to hang out in our breaks time and we hang outside of work now. It's it's really nice.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Yeah. Yeah. It's a whole vibe. So if anyone out there listening is looking for a new place to get any of the services that she just mentioned and done, you should definitely go check it out. I had the pleasure of going for what was it, just like your grand opening party. Um, and it was just so cool.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

And I'm sure that it's it's everywhere for each girl who who they are as a person and what their interests are, so that when you go in there, you know if that's your kind of person. Yeah, instantly you either vibe or you don't. And that's okay not to, because there's enough places in Lafayette you can throw a rock and hit an esthetician building. Yeah. And your person is out there and we want ours to find us. So I think saying that so loudly right up front is what helps us find those people faster.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Yeah, 100%. The businesses that I see be their most authentic selves, and you're allowing the individuals within your business to show up as their authentic selves. Those are the businesses that I see be the most successful. So you're definitely doing something right.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

It's uh all by chance.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

I would say all that though. Give yourself some credit, right? Like you took you took I am very intentional about it.

SPEAKER_00 19:07

I I want these things for them. I I have a vision board for every step of the process along the way. And I encourage people to do that because every time I've made a vision board, it's come to life.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

So I love that so much. I'm actually in in the process of putting together an ex vision board event. So I hope that you rolled that up.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

I've been thinking about doing that for them. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

So, Tara, now I'm gonna ask you a question about just when you think about all the different seasons that you've been through, or even the season that you're currently in now, what what is then maybe the an extra difficult season for you and what'd you learn from it?

SPEAKER_00 19:46

This season that I'm in currently with a two-year-old and a nine-year-old has been the my most difficult season. I mean, two is a hard age in itself. They're getting their independence, but they don't really know how to be fully independent yet, or they're just not big enough to be independent, but they want to be. And I'm juggling that at home when I'm battling, should I be doing more at work at home? Should I be trying to be on Facebook, getting clients that are asking for these services? I don't know if you see it in in the Greek girl swap shop, but I'm always in there. People are asking who does waxing, who does lashes? And sometimes I find myself just kind of on the couch, like just answering these posts, and my child needs me, she wants my attention. But uh, that's an eternal battle. Like, how much time should I give? Should I give Annie to work on those off days? The answer for me is definitely yes. Um, but in this season, am I sacrificing her youth, her time at home with me before she goes to school? That's a hard season for me.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

Yeah, it's the hardest. Yeah, the pull. It's the pull. I'm I'm right in the middle between the two my two babies, really. Yeah. We all experience it, at least everyone that I talk to is a mom and also a business owner. That pull is so real of just like the moment we can all visualize where we're like on the couch with our kid and we're looking at something work-related on our phone, and our kids like slapping at us or singing in our face or touching our leg. And it's like just this moment where you're just both eating alive on the inside because you feel so guilty for not giving them that 100% attention in that moment, but you're also like, gosh, this is so important for work in a day.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

So five minutes right now.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

Yeah, just these five minutes would be so impactful, and I could be so productive, real quick. Um, but that pull is so real, and so I I definitely am with you. I feel you, I'm right there in it as well with my two year old currently. So, what would you say? I mean, to me, this makes me think of. I had a recent conversation with a mom about how just how intentional and how much you you have to define what is enough in terms of how much time you're spending with them at home versus how much time you're spending on your business at home. If you are, you know, doing the kind of work from home, stay-at-home mom thing, because that's when you can make it even harder because you're not leaving and going in the office somewhere where you have that away time. Right. And so the pull is even more real when you're trying to work from home. And so that's what it makes me think about is just how can you tailor? Maybe this is just a question for you to think about right now. Like, how do you, when you when you ask yourself the question in this moment today, and then when you're on the couch in those moments with her, going like, should I be doing this or should I be doing that? Or how much of my time should be dedicated to this? How much of it, if you had to decide for yourself today, like what you want that to be, that answer of like this is enough time with her, this would be enough time for business, and then how can you, you know, set some boundaries that make it feel better for you?

SPEAKER_00 23:02

I try to do it week by week, or if you have to, even day by day. Are there tasks that I need to get done for work today or this week? Then I need to be intentional about so many hours this week towards it, or or one hour even sometimes. Some it's not hard to do a social media thing if you have intentional time. But when you are having Mickey Mouse is on and she's jumping on a trampoline and look, mommy, and that's hard to break away from. But yeah, I try to set some intentional time for her to do something where she can independent play. And then I take that time and I work. And when that time is done, I have to just let it go, even if it's unfinished.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Yeah, which can be so hard. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Right, gosh, there's almost like setting like a party watch.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Yeah, it's like, okay, done. Um, and and what do you do then when it is done? Like, I know what I would do, but I'm curious for you because I think too, that can be a struggle. It's like, okay, well, if I don't finish my work, then how do I just because I love the idea of having like a close-out ritual to your work day and being able to like put that bow on it and walk away from it feeling good. But that's right, but that's not reality. I'm so worked out even on sick days. So, what do you do in that moment where it's like, okay, well, my time is up on work, it's time for her now. I'm not done with my task.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

I check in with her, honestly. It depends on each moment, it is different. Sometimes her need is not there. If she doesn't need me in that moment, then I keep going. But if she's ready, if she's been asking for me, then I have to close it down. And I look at my schedule, I keep everything in my booking app. Those girls can log in and see, they can see that I'm here right now. They can see that later. I have a phone call I have to make. They can I pencil it in later, um, which was very hard at first. But in this season, that's something I had to learn to do. And next season is not gonna look like this for me. I will have specific days that are dedicated to the social media time, the content creation time. And I I'm excited for that. Um, but right now I'm just kind of mapping and planning that time out before I get there.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Yeah. Which is what you have to do though. That's I mean, there's the intention is one thing, and then the like planning you're actually doing are the other two pieces perhaps. And it sounds like you've you've come a really long way. Like you said, it wasn't easy at first. You've really made a lot of changes with like putting things in the calendar, writing things down, blocking out your time and planning.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Don't put it there or we'll forget it. Yeah, yeah, so will I. Living dying. Living down. A written one and the booking app one.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Yes, yeah. We need the systems, we need the tools to support our success, mamas. I will talk about that until I'm blue in the face, probably on this podcast. If you ever work with me, if you ever talk to me in person. Systems equal success. So use the tools like the apps, like the different ways of you know, staying on the same page with your team members, if you have employees, um, staying on the same page with your family members, um, because we have all we all have our own individual lives. And that's something I'm personally working on right now is like what, you know, what kind of system can I put in place to make sure that whether it be on a weekly basis, like I'm sitting down with my husband and we're just talking about what the week ahead looks like, even if we have it in our calendars, but just to just to have that conversation of this is what's going on, these these are the things that I need support with. What do you need support with? What's important for you to accomplish this week? This is what's important for because yeah, we get to those points or those little moments of friction in our relationship too, as you know, both working parents, where it's like, I have this thing I want to do today. And he's like, Well, I had this thing I wanted to do today. And I'm like, Well, how I can't read your mind. How am I supposed to know you wanted to accomplish that today?

SPEAKER_00 26:55

So, even you know, those conversations I've penciled in a relaxed on the couch time, but he's penciled in let's pull weeds today. And I'm like, my free time is not for yours for you to grab. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

So you can actually go pull weeds. That would be the reverse. It would be me volunteering my husband to pull weeds with me, and he would have been like, This was my couch day. Yeah. I love that so much. Oh man. Well, Taylor, take us to you know, the future. So we talked about what life looked like with just one kid. We talked about where you're at in this difficult season right now with trying to balance both while being hands-off and all the delegating that you're doing. Talk about when you do go back full time again, how might that that future version of full time look even different from what the past version of full-time looked like?

SPEAKER_00 27:50

Once I go back, we we bought this building when my baby was only maybe six months old. So I've really been in it this whole time. And going back full-time, I plan to start doing a lot more of the hands-on stuff in the building, all of the deep cleaning that my team has been helping with, all of the answering the phones, calling people back on messages, being on Facebook and getting us seen and our name out there. We were nominated this year for a Katie Anna's Choice. So congratulations. Thank you. So getting that further out there, I think that needs its own intentional days, and that's what I'm planning to do. We're touring a preschool tomorrow. So hopefully Tuesdays and Thursdays in August will look a little different. Uh, but I intend to go, I think she gets out at two on those days. So my plan is to go right after drop off, 9 a.m., head to the salon. And until 12, 1 o'clock, I plan to be doing whatever it needs in there, making sure the salon is running efficiently and to the level of luxury that I envision for it, making sure that our snacks are always there, our refreshments are full, that I when we opened that I said, Oh, we're gonna have fresh lemon water for everyone in the front every day. Who's cutting those lemons? Who's throwing those lemons out? Because that quickly became water bottles. But I still want to get there one day. I want to be at that luxurious salon in Lafayette, who has these wonderful cucumber waters and lemon waters every week. But somebody's got to do that job.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Yeah. Talked about the sacrifices you make, right? You sacrifice the fancy lemon water and the guests got some water bottles during this season of life, but you're gonna get to go back to doing things the way that you really want to, and doing all the things that all those sticky note tabs level type of behavior. Yeah. So you'll you'll be able to put into action all those things that are taking up the middle, the middle space while you're at home. And you're tormenting me. Well, I want to ask you if there is one message that you would hope that moms would take away from this episode, just about the different seasons of motherhood that they go through, you know, hand in hand with them growing through their businesses. What would you hope that they take away from this episode?

SPEAKER_00 30:19

I hope that you don't spend too much time worried about the next season that you miss the season that you're in, because if you don't get it back unless you have another baby, really. And I think that's why we miss it so much because during that time in it, we were trying to do something else, trying to get back to who we were before or who we imagined we would be, and we miss it. It's gone in a blink.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

Yeah, yeah. So good, so true. So be present, enjoy the season that you're in now because it's gonna go by so fast, and you will miss it once it's gone. You will miss it. Well, Taylor, where can people go to find out more about you, connect with you, learn about your business?

SPEAKER_00 31:04

We are on Instagram and Facebook under Coalab Beauty Lounge, and our booking site is the best way to get in touch with all of us if you want to see what our services look like, what they would cost, what we have to offer. That's at bookaro.com slash CB Lounge. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

And I will link all of that up in the show notes for you guys today. This has been such a great conversation, and I hope that any mom that listened that's going through, you know, well, that's just going through life, which is all the moms listening right now. Just know it throws in a season. It is a season, you will get through it, and yeah, don't be so focused on what's next that you forget to enjoy the present. So, Taylor, cheers to raising humans and building something meaningful. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. You're so welcome. It was a pleasure. Hey mama, I hope you enjoyed today's episode. If you did, share it with a friend. This is probably the best way that you could show your support for my show. I hope that each episode you truly walk away feeling like this added value to your life in some way. Because I know how precious our time is as mompreneurs, and I'm grateful that you choose to spend it here. I hope you have an amazing day. Until next time.