Episode 313

Candy Motzek Shares how to align with who you are | DFS 313

Get all the inside secrets and tools you need to help you develop your intuitive and leadership skills so you are on the path to the highest level of success with ease.  Candy was a corporate dynamo but made a huge shift when she was on leave that impacted her entire life!

In this episode you will learn:


  • Blackberry, communication device that tethered employees to the organization, LIVED in the bedroom!
  • Created a new routing when on leave that changed her life - MORNING ROUTINE
  • You get to do the morning routine you want!


Connect with Candy Motzek

Website:  https://stepintosuccessnow.com/

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/candy-motzek/

FREE GIFT:  candysfreegift.com



If you are ready to start reaching your goals instead of simply dreaming about it, start today with 12minutegift.com


 Grab your FREE meditation:  Reduce Your Anxiety MEDITATION


Are you ready to tiptoe into your intuition and tap into your soul’s message? Let’s talk 


Listen in as Jennifer Takagi, founder of Takagi Consulting, 5X time Amazon.Com Best Selling-Author, Certified Soul Care Coach, Certified Jack Canfield Success Principle Trainer, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Facilitator of the DISC Behavioral Profiles, Certified Change Style Indicator Facilitator, Law of Attraction Practitioner, and Certified Coaching Specialist - leadership entrepreneur, speaker and trainer, shares the lessons she’s learned along the way.  Each episode is designed to give you the tools, ideas, and inspiration to lead with integrity. Humor is a big part of Jennifer’s life, so expect a few puns and possibly some sarcasm.  Tune in for a motivational guest, a story or tips to take you even closer to that success you’ve been coveting.  Please share the episodes that inspired you the most and be sure to leave a comment.  


Official Website: http://www.takagiconsulting.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennifertakagi/

Facebook: facebook.com/takagiconsulting


Wishing you the best,


Jennifer Takagi

Speaker, Trainer, Author, Catalyst for Healing


PS: We would love to hear from you! For questions, coaching, or to book interviews, please email my team at Jennifer@takagiconsulting.com

Transcript
Jennifer Takagi:

Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

Jennifer Takagi:

host, Jennifer Takagi, and today I have my friend candy mozock

Jennifer Takagi:

with me, and candy and I met in a mastermind group, and then we

Jennifer Takagi:

played together in Mexico with the same masterminding group of

Jennifer Takagi:

people. And yeah, we just stick together, candy, thanks for

Jennifer Takagi:

being on the show

Candy Motzek:

today, for having me. It's been so great. You were

Candy Motzek:

on my show a while ago, and I'm so great to just happy to do the

Candy Motzek:

swap and happy to be talking to your listeners. Ah,

Jennifer Takagi:

thanks. So we like to talk about success on

Jennifer Takagi:

this podcast, and sometimes stories are like, what didn't

Jennifer Takagi:

feel so successful steps taken to be more successful. So you

Jennifer Takagi:

know, what does success mean or look like to you at this point

Jennifer Takagi:

in your life?

Candy Motzek:

Yeah, great question. Ah, and now I have to

Candy Motzek:

think about it too. So for me, success is alignment. It is this

Candy Motzek:

thing about being totally aligned with who you are and

Candy Motzek:

that place where you you know as you mature, I'm getting on there

Candy Motzek:

you get closer and closer to allowing yourself to be your

Candy Motzek:

true your true self, that is success. And I think that when

Candy Motzek:

you get there, everything else works, and you get the money,

Candy Motzek:

then you have the abundance, and you have the great

Candy Motzek:

relationships, because you're really allowing yourself to be

Candy Motzek:

true to who you are.

Jennifer Takagi:

And it's so exhausting trying to be somebody

Jennifer Takagi:

else or stand out differently. Going to class reunions, I kind

Jennifer Takagi:

of quit going, but I went to my tenure, and that was fun. I went

Jennifer Takagi:

to my 15 year and that was very bizarre. And by the time we hit

Jennifer Takagi:

the 20 year reunion, it was like people were now 38 years old, 39

Jennifer Takagi:

years old, and they actually had, like, come into their own,

Jennifer Takagi:

what they wanted to do, who they wanted to be, whereas there was

Jennifer Takagi:

an aspect prior to that of Keeping Up with the Joneses and

Jennifer Takagi:

trying to show up in a certain way, and sometimes that

Jennifer Takagi:

continues long after. But I found, like overall, we kind of

Jennifer Takagi:

settled in. Did you ever have a a time where you thought, Okay,

Jennifer Takagi:

I've kind of made it. I'm kind of, I'm kind of happy with where

Jennifer Takagi:

I am right now.

Candy Motzek:

I have that time off and on, and I've probably

Candy Motzek:

had it for about the last 10 years. It it's sort of funny,

Candy Motzek:

because it ties in with my morning routine. Every morning I

Candy Motzek:

get up, I pour myself a cup of coffee, I walk out the back

Candy Motzek:

door. If it's decent weather, I like to walk barefoot across the

Candy Motzek:

grass to my she shed and then I have my morning meditation and

Candy Motzek:

journaling and tapping and stuff that I do. And it's in that

Candy Motzek:

moment that I really feel like totally aligned. And I think

Candy Motzek:

it's really interesting what you're saying about the high

Candy Motzek:

school reunion thing, and my experience of that is totally

Candy Motzek:

different. I found that I think, after I went to my 15 year, 20

Candy Motzek:

year, I just didn't want to go anymore. I just, it's just not

Candy Motzek:

me, because those people, they may be closer to who they are,

Candy Motzek:

truthfully, but I found they weren't my people. And I was

Candy Motzek:

like, That's No, I just don't want to spend a lot of time with

Candy Motzek:

you. You're not the kind of person I want to hang out with,

Candy Motzek:

because if I did, I wouldn't need to see you at a graduation,

Candy Motzek:

reunion. I would see you all the time, right? So I had the

Jennifer Takagi:

same thing, and I missed multiple reunions

Jennifer Takagi:

because I was like, Yeah, I don't need to. The last one I

Jennifer Takagi:

went to a friend came in from out of town and said, I'm

Jennifer Takagi:

coming. I'm going to the reunion. You're going with me.

Jennifer Takagi:

And I was like, I'll go to hang out with you. Literally, there

Jennifer Takagi:

were hundreds of people there. I'm fairly social and outgoing,

Jennifer Takagi:

as you know, I bet I didn't talk to 10 people the whole time I

Jennifer Takagi:

was there, but there were 10 people I really wanted to talk

Jennifer Takagi:

to,

Candy Motzek:

yeah, and I'm the same way. There's a couple of

Candy Motzek:

people that it's like, oh yeah, people who live away

Candy Motzek:

internationally. But as it goes, the people that live close to

Candy Motzek:

where I grew up. They're just, you know, they're just different

Candy Motzek:

people. They're not my people, you know, not bad people, just

Candy Motzek:

not my people. So that's okay. Well,

Jennifer Takagi:

let's talk about your morning routine just

Jennifer Takagi:

a little bit. When I worked for corporate or federal government,

Jennifer Takagi:

my routine was they. Went off, I hit snooze a few times, just

Jennifer Takagi:

because I enjoy those few minutes of just I have a few

Jennifer Takagi:

more minutes. And then I would help out of bed and hit the

Jennifer Takagi:

ground running. I was in the shower, I was dressed, I was

Jennifer Takagi:

getting my breakfast together, my lunch together. I was in the

Jennifer Takagi:

car, I was out the door, and I was super awesome about that.

Jennifer Takagi:

And I would hear about people taking an hour, hour and a half

Jennifer Takagi:

to get ready to go to work. And I'm like, I get up at 10 till

Jennifer Takagi:

seven, and I'm usually out of the door at 737, 40 at the

Jennifer Takagi:

latest, like, if I had to make a sandwich or something. And I was

Jennifer Takagi:

like, I was up and out, and I was good with that. And now at

Jennifer Takagi:

this point in my life, and interacting with a whole lot of

Jennifer Takagi:

people who are much more I'm going to use the term mindful

Jennifer Takagi:

and possibly spiritual, they have morning routines, and it's

Jennifer Takagi:

a deal. Tell me a little bit more. I mean, I love your

Jennifer Takagi:

morning routine, but how has that made a huge difference in

Jennifer Takagi:

your life? And have you done it like always.

Candy Motzek:

So I've done it for what feels like 100 years,

Candy Motzek:

but it hasn't been for always. So as you were describing your

Candy Motzek:

corporate morning routine, mine was very similar, except the

Candy Motzek:

difference was that we were on call, 24/7, 365, and so I always

Candy Motzek:

slept with the phone. It was a Blackberry in those days. God,

Candy Motzek:

it was a Blackberry, and I always slept with the phone in

Candy Motzek:

my bedroom, not on my nightstand, but on the dresser

Candy Motzek:

just across the way. So the first thing that I would always

Candy Motzek:

do is just check my phone, because sure shooting somebody

Candy Motzek:

would have decided that we needed to have an urgent team

Candy Motzek:

meeting about this new initiative or some emergency,

Candy Motzek:

but we needed to have that meeting at 7am my time. I live

Candy Motzek:

on the West Coast. Most everybody else that was

Candy Motzek:

important lived on the east coast. So their idea of 7am was

Candy Motzek:

like, well, it's 10am What's your problem? And so that used

Candy Motzek:

to be my morning routine. And lots of things happened. You

Candy Motzek:

know, there's mixed race woman in corporate America, in a

Candy Motzek:

highly male dominated field at a senior level. And so I

Candy Motzek:

experienced it all, racism, sexism, all the isms. And it was

Candy Motzek:

it became intolerable. And so my morning routine, I created that

Candy Motzek:

when I was on leave from burnout. And so that morning

Candy Motzek:

routine saved my life, and that is the that's the reason that I

Candy Motzek:

do it. And now it's like this great. It's one of my favorite

Candy Motzek:

times of the day. I wake up pretty darn early because I love

Candy Motzek:

especially this time of the year, in the spring, we've got,

Candy Motzek:

you know, the sun is up at about 4am and the birds are singing,

Candy Motzek:

and there is nothing like walking out your back door and

Candy Motzek:

seeing the baby ducklings and the different little creatures

Candy Motzek:

and stuff. It's the best thing ever. But my morning routine was

Candy Motzek:

started because I needed it, because I was dying and and it

Candy Motzek:

saved my life and saved my mental life. So it always starts

Candy Motzek:

with a meditation. Doesn't have to be a long meditation, but

Candy Motzek:

always with meditation. And even now, if I miss a day, my husband

Candy Motzek:

will look at me and said, Did you meditate today? Candy?

Candy Motzek:

Because you should.

Jennifer Takagi:

He does not, right. He does

Candy Motzek:

not meditate at all, which is so funny,

Unknown:

you need to

Candy Motzek:

exactly and then journaling, because while

Candy Motzek:

journaling, you get all those thoughts and emotions that are

Candy Motzek:

in your head out onto a paper. And it's kind of like I always

Candy Motzek:

start my journaling the way I describe it. It's like cleaning

Candy Motzek:

out the junk drawer in your kitchen. Just get all that crap

Candy Motzek:

out of the junk drawer of your head, and then I can decide how

Candy Motzek:

I want to think about things. I look at what my goals are, what

Candy Motzek:

my dreams are, what I'm thankful for. And so the journaling is

Candy Motzek:

just an integral thing. And I know that we're audio, but if

Candy Motzek:

somebody was seeing video, you would see a small stack of

Candy Motzek:

journals behind me here, and that's, yeah, that's about a

Candy Motzek:

year's worth, so there's a lot of them. And then EFT tapping,

Candy Motzek:

because it's just a great way of calming your nervous system. And

Candy Motzek:

as soon as your nervous system is calm and you can have better

Candy Motzek:

thoughts. You can plan how you want your day to be, and you can

Candy Motzek:

feel more like yourself. You know, there's that full circle,

Candy Motzek:

right? Come back to being yourself. So, yeah, that's the

Candy Motzek:

that's the morning routine. Sometimes I do slightly

Candy Motzek:

different things, like, currently, I love Marianne

Candy Motzek:

Williamson, and so I'm one of her substack. Um. Um

Candy Motzek:

subscribers, and I listened to her little two minute morning

Candy Motzek:

meditation. It's always very interesting, based on a course

Candy Motzek:

in miracles. And then I always read a comment on her sub stack,

Candy Motzek:

because I think if I can think of something good to say, maybe

Candy Motzek:

it helps somebody else's day get better too.

Jennifer Takagi:

So much in all of that. So I want to go back

Jennifer Takagi:

just a tiny bit to your BlackBerry story. There could be

Jennifer Takagi:

listeners who don't know what a Blackberry was. Oh, my God, it's

Jennifer Takagi:

before smartphones, but it was like the smartest thing out

Jennifer Takagi:

there. Oh yeah, and go ahead.

Candy Motzek:

No, I'm good. I was just gonna say the thing is

Candy Motzek:

that it was the smartest thing out there. And I know that the

Candy Motzek:

new trend is there's a lot of people who have gotten rid of

Candy Motzek:

their smartphones and have gone back to the old analog flip

Candy Motzek:

phone because they don't want all that connectivity. It's

Candy Motzek:

pretty cool.

Jennifer Takagi:

Well, I have a girlfriend. She's like, I have

Jennifer Takagi:

no social media on my phone. And I was like, okay, but on that

Jennifer Takagi:

BlackBerry note, a hard lesson for me to learn, just as a

Jennifer Takagi:

person, not even as an executive or upcoming career, just in

Jennifer Takagi:

general, was that change is inevitable, and the older we

Jennifer Takagi:

get. I'm seeing how less pliable, malleable and flexible

Jennifer Takagi:

people get with age at change, like I want the good old days.

Jennifer Takagi:

Was it really that good? No, it really wasn't like, let's be

Jennifer Takagi:

here, but the BlackBerry was the greatest thing going and

Jennifer Takagi:

everybody thought BlackBerry was going to be here forever, like

Jennifer Takagi:

they it. That was the thing. That was the technology. It was

Jennifer Takagi:

amazing. They refused, I can't even talk today. We've had this

Jennifer Takagi:

problem earlier. They refused to change and modernize, exactly.

Jennifer Takagi:

And now we have an entire generation or two, maybe three

Jennifer Takagi:

now that have never heard of a Blackberry other than maybe, you

Jennifer Takagi:

know the TV show or somebody mentioning it. So if we don't

Jennifer Takagi:

grow and evolve, we're going to become extinct before our time.

Jennifer Takagi:

And this whole mindfulness and meditation and journaling that's

Jennifer Takagi:

just a way to keep us evolving and on our toes. And I know one

Jennifer Takagi:

time you had a Monday morning session, for lack of a better

Jennifer Takagi:

word, and I joined it, and you were like, Okay, I want you to

Jennifer Takagi:

meditate. What would your day look like if you had, for

Jennifer Takagi:

instance, 10 clients. And I started journaling about it. I'm

Jennifer Takagi:

sure you remember this, and you're like, oh, so everybody,

Jennifer Takagi:

you know what came up for you? And I was like, I don't want 10

Jennifer Takagi:

clients. If they each wanted three sessions a week. Like,

Jennifer Takagi:

that's 30 hours a week. I have other things, like, I can't cope

Jennifer Takagi:

with 30 with 10 clients in 30 hours a week. And I just really,

Jennifer Takagi:

like, I drew a hard line in the sand, like, I don't want that. I

Jennifer Takagi:

don't want 10 clients. That's too many. And I was talking to a

Jennifer Takagi:

business coach, and they said, Oh, Jennifer, you don't have to

Jennifer Takagi:

book them three times a week. They get on your calendar when

Jennifer Takagi:

you have availability. And I was like, wait what? You didn't get

Jennifer Takagi:

on like you, I haven't talked to you in two weeks because you

Jennifer Takagi:

couldn't get on my calendar. Our calendars didn't align. It

Jennifer Takagi:

wasn't that they had no availability. It was like my

Jennifer Takagi:

availability, their availability, but that was,

Jennifer Takagi:

like, a huge mindset shift for me. And I was like, of course, I

Jennifer Takagi:

can handle at least 10 clients, because it doesn't have to be

Jennifer Takagi:

that way. So it's being open and flexible to another way to do

Jennifer Takagi:

it. I'm fair to partly rigid. I'm trying to be more, you know,

Jennifer Takagi:

open and fluid. But that journaling, you get it out on

Jennifer Takagi:

paper, then you can share it with somebody else, and like me,

Jennifer Takagi:

you can have the win of somebody going that doesn't have to be

Jennifer Takagi:

that way.

Candy Motzek:

Open Access to you. They get open access within

Candy Motzek:

the time that you say they can have access. But you got to take

Candy Motzek:

care of yourself and have a life too, right?

Jennifer Takagi:

Hey, that's the other piece. Yes, you have to

Jennifer Takagi:

take care of yourself. I love so I love flying, like, just get me

Jennifer Takagi:

where I want to go so I can enjoy the experience once I'm

Jennifer Takagi:

there. But Southwest Airlines, their flight attendants have

Jennifer Takagi:

more fun with their pre flight announcements, and it's, you

Jennifer Takagi:

know, put on the put on your face Max first before you help

Jennifer Takagi:

the man next to you, because he's going to need it, or the

Jennifer Takagi:

children. But if you don't put yours on first, and it's so

Jennifer Takagi:

true, and we hear mainly women talking all the time about all

Jennifer Takagi:

their responsibilities, all the people they have to take. Care

Jennifer Takagi:

of in their lives, and they don't have time to get a

Jennifer Takagi:

manicure pedicure. Okay? That's not just having good looking

Jennifer Takagi:

toes and and fingers. That's like downtime. That's like self

Jennifer Takagi:

care. Not everybody gets that. I totally get that. Manicures, not

Jennifer Takagi:

so much. Pedicures, absolutely and it's it, it's all the little

Jennifer Takagi:

things that can help so your morning routine, and I'm just,

Jennifer Takagi:

I'm hammering this home because I I wish people would like

Jennifer Takagi:

embrace a morning routine. What's your average time slot

Jennifer Takagi:

that you make for your morning routine to have coffee,

Jennifer Takagi:

meditate, journal, EFT, tapping. And I

Candy Motzek:

love that hour talk, an hour talk. Tops, I use

Candy Motzek:

the setting on my iPhone that says I cannot look at social

Candy Motzek:

media or my emails or anything on the web before 7am so my

Candy Motzek:

morning routine could easily span a long time, if then I'm

Candy Motzek:

like, oh, so and so's doing on Instagram. Oh, that's cool. I

Candy Motzek:

like that. And before I know it, the whole thing is sucked away.

Candy Motzek:

So it's, it's this place of focus, right? It's like, you

Candy Motzek:

decide to do it, but you're doing it only that, not that,

Candy Motzek:

and eating breakfast that, and checking Instagram that, and

Candy Motzek:

responding to an email, just stay pure to that morning

Candy Motzek:

routine. And I bet you, if you had 20 minutes and you did it

Candy Motzek:

consciously, you can do 10 minutes of meditation, five

Candy Motzek:

minutes of journaling, five minutes of tapping, 20 minutes

Candy Motzek:

all in it's going to change your day.

Jennifer Takagi:

10 minutes of meditation, five minutes of

Jennifer Takagi:

journaling, five of tapping,

Candy Motzek:

and you all have changed your day.

Jennifer Takagi:

So I'm a Christian, but I also believe

Jennifer Takagi:

that we get lots of messages from lots of different things,

Jennifer Takagi:

and for me, it all was created by God, so it's good. Other

Jennifer Takagi:

people believe in universe and spirit or higher self. I'm good

Jennifer Takagi:

with any of it. Everybody's belief systems are great with

Jennifer Takagi:

me. I don't really care. But you get messages however they come,

Jennifer Takagi:

whatever label you put on him. But the one thing I have learned

Jennifer Takagi:

that I know that I know that I know the messages come quicker

Jennifer Takagi:

and more easily when you're quiet and still

Candy Motzek:

exactly and so for people who are Christians, it's

Candy Motzek:

this prayer is where we talk to God, and meditating is where we

Candy Motzek:

listen to God, right? The place that I hear most of my messages

Candy Motzek:

is I get them at 4am I kind of semi sort of kind of wake up.

Candy Motzek:

It's sort of like a half awake, and then they'll get something,

Candy Motzek:

and then I get to go back to sleep for another hour. It's

Candy Motzek:

great.

Jennifer Takagi:

And that's when you have that idea that you have

Jennifer Takagi:

to sleep with a pad and pen next year bed. So when those

Jennifer Takagi:

brilliant moments come,

Unknown:

gotta write it. Yeah,

Jennifer Takagi:

I had a spiritual coach one time say

Jennifer Takagi:

when I go to bed, I set the intention that my guides will

Jennifer Takagi:

remind me of the brilliance that I had during my sleep. Because

Jennifer Takagi:

if something really big comes up and you wake up and you're like,

Jennifer Takagi:

Ah, I think I had that solution.

Candy Motzek:

Yeah. What was that thing? But I love that I

Candy Motzek:

hadn't thought about that. I'm going to use that too, yeah,

Candy Motzek:

remind my guides to remind me so I don't forget.

Jennifer Takagi:

So math was always hard for me, and there

Jennifer Takagi:

are probably a bazillion reasons why I'm smart enough. I could

Jennifer Takagi:

have learned it, I just didn't like it. But what I found as I

Jennifer Takagi:

got higher up in in math, in algebra two and trig, Algebra

Jennifer Takagi:

three, while I was in high school, was I would finally get

Jennifer Takagi:

it the morning of the test, like, finally it would all come

Jennifer Takagi:

together. I would sit down, I would take the test, and I

Jennifer Takagi:

always gotta be like, I could never get an A, and it was

Jennifer Takagi:

because I didn't have enough time between understanding and

Jennifer Takagi:

having to be tested on it. But I think a lot of that came from

Jennifer Takagi:

that night before the test, like, I had studied, I had

Jennifer Takagi:

prepped, I had done all the things that my subconscious is

Jennifer Takagi:

like, All right, we'll let you get through it.

Candy Motzek:

Yeah. And also maybe it was the processing,

Candy Motzek:

like, I'm just kind of thinking about that, like allowing your

Candy Motzek:

subconscious to process it and put it in the way that actually

Candy Motzek:

made sense to you. Like, you know, studying it is one thing,

Candy Motzek:

but then it needs to make sense to you to be able to do the test

Candy Motzek:

too.

Jennifer Takagi:

Yeah, I always thought, Man, I woke up today if

Jennifer Takagi:

that test could only be tomorrow. Like I just know,

Jennifer Takagi:

because, you know, today, as soon as we take the test, we

Jennifer Takagi:

move on to something new, right? So for sure, you have to be

Jennifer Takagi:

quiet and still candy. This has been awesome. I i. Love that you

Jennifer Takagi:

went from sleeping with the BlackBerry in your bedroom, that

Jennifer Takagi:

you had to like react to instantaneously when you got up

Jennifer Takagi:

to no social, no email, no nothing before 7am so that you

Jennifer Takagi:

can have time for your morning rituals. This has been great,

Jennifer Takagi:

awesome conversation. So any last words for the audience and

Jennifer Takagi:

how they can get hold of you? Ah,

Candy Motzek:

last words. So I think that the last word is that

Candy Motzek:

you get to do a morning routine the way you want to when you

Candy Motzek:

make it so that it doesn't feel like another thing on your to do

Candy Motzek:

list that's that you have to do, but something that you look

Candy Motzek:

forward to. It's everything. So if you love the idea of a

Candy Motzek:

morning routine and you drink coffee, get it in your favorite

Candy Motzek:

mug, sit in a nice comfy chair with a nice fluffy blanket and

Candy Motzek:

really savor it and make it something that you enjoy. The

Candy Motzek:

more you enjoy it, the more you're going to feel like you

Candy Motzek:

need to do it. So that would be my thoughts. And then how they

Candy Motzek:

can get a hold of me. You can get a hold of me at my website.

Candy Motzek:

It is candymote.com not going to spell it all out for you. It'll

Candy Motzek:

be in the Episode Notes, but it's just my name

Candy Motzek:

candymoatsec.com you can see all different kinds of people that I

Candy Motzek:

talk to, and ways that you can find out more about working with

Candy Motzek:

me. Thank you for having me.

Jennifer Takagi:

I love it, candy. Thank you so much for

Jennifer Takagi:

your time. I'm Jennifer Takagi with destin for success, and I

Jennifer Takagi:

look forward to connecting with you soon. You.

About the Podcast

Show artwork for Destined For Success
Destined For Success
Destined For Success With Jennifer Takagi

Listen for free

About your host

Profile picture for Jennifer Takagi

Jennifer Takagi


I am Jennifer Takagi, an Executive Leadership + Communication Coach who teaches leaders how to play well at work so they can drive better performance from people they lead, increase profitability and create a purposeful workplace where people want to come and play—productively.